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| RETRIEVING 18-MONTH-OLD: A fire officer carries 18-month-old Lesley Muir up a precipice on Thursday at Studley Park, Tobago, after the vehicle in which she was a passenger plunged into the sea below. Lesley died yesterday. –Photo: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS |
EIGHTEEN-month-old Lesley Muir has died following a vehicular accident in Tobago on Thursday.
Her parents, Marlon Muir and Ann Marie McMillan, who were also occupants of the blue Nissan B13 car, were treated for their injuries at the Scarborough General Hospital and discharged.
The family sustained injuries when the car in which they were occupants plunged over an incline and into the sea at Shangy Hill, Studley Park, shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday.
The child was pitched into the water upon impact.
Public relations officer of the Fire Service, David Thomas, said a search was mounted and some minutes later the child was found. “Little Lesley was discovered missing and a search was mounted, and the body was later discovered in the sea,” Thomas said.
“Efforts to resuscitate her immediately commenced and it brought some results. We were able to get some water from her abdomen. We then rushed all parties to the Scarborough General Hospital,” Thomas said.