00:00A family in Arima is calling for answers after a deadly road traffic accident claimed the lives of a young couple and left their seven-year-old daughter seriously injured.
00:11The relatives say the mother may have survived if help had arrived sooner.
00:1542-year-old David Haru and his wife Jennifer Ramutarsing, 34, of Arima Old Road were killed on Sunday morning when their vehicle veered off the eastern main road near a bridge in Wallafield and crashed into a ditch.
00:30Police say their seven-year-old daughter was also in the vehicle.
00:34She was thrown from the van.
00:36She suffered a fractured skull and ribs and is warded in a serious condition at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
00:45Speaking with TV6 at the family's home earlier today, the couple's daughters relayed what they knew of the accident.
00:52Well, my parents was going up the road and then a car was coming down and it took over to their side.
00:58And he had lost balance and he and he had went down a hill.
01:04And while I was going down the hill, my mom had thrown my sister out of the truck because she knew what was going to happen.
01:16She said that from the information given to them, the vehicle had hit a bamboo patch.
01:22David was killed instantly.
01:24Jennifer suffered multiple injuries.
01:27However, she reportedly clung to life for about an hour.
01:30The older daughter said that the family was a tight-knit one, so much so that they were rarely away from each other.
01:59David and Jennifer were parents to six children, four girls and two boys.
02:14Three are in primary school and three are in secondary school, TV6 was told.
02:19David's mother describes the couple as hard-working and loving.
02:24And my son was a very, very quiet, quiet man.
02:31You wouldn't even know when he's home.
02:34He wasn't to talk hard or no trouble and my daughter-in-law, she was a real hard worker.
02:46She's a person who never gave up.
02:51She was, everything she did, she used to work very hard to mind these children.
02:59Angela Haru is now left to care for her six grandchildren and says the family needs help.
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