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A Laventille woman is dead following a tragic road accident in Tobago East.
Marjorie Harry Orr lost her life on Saturday morning after the vehicle she was in careened into the Richmond River. Elizabeth Williams has more.
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00:00According to police, around 8.35 a.m. on Saturday, 78-year-old Thomas Orr of Upper Wharton Street,
00:09Laventill, was driving motor vehicle PDT 7681 with his wife Marjorie Harry Orr in the front
00:17passenger seat. They were heading south along Richmond Orchard Drive when they reached the
00:24intersection with Wynwood Road. There, both Orr's vehicle and another car, driven by 30-year-old
00:32male, attempted to proceed simultaneously after pausing to allow each other the right-of-way.
00:40The two vehicles collided and the impact forced Thomas Orr's vehicle over an embankment,
00:47plunging approximately 30 feet into the Richmond River. Passers-by rushed to the scene,
00:53pulling both occupants from the submerged vehicle. CPR was performed on Marjorie Orr by both
01:00civilians and responding fire officers, but she remained unresponsive. The couple was taken
01:07to the Roxbury Hospital, where Marjorie Orr was pronounced dead. Thomas Orr received medical
01:14attention. Investigations into the incident are ongoing. Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
01:23Tom Perez- through the scene, who came back to the scene of the scene of the north, was the
01:25GV-1, the
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