(Trinidad Express):

The girl who turned 18 the night her sister and two friends died has given police a chilling account of what happened in the minutes before the car crash.

Salisha Ali said there was a fight between two people in the car after they left a nightclub, and there were angry words and accusations while they drove home.

Ali said she was lying across the laps of the girls in the back seat shortly before the crash.

"I knew nothing, not the crash, not who died, until I woke up at the hospital," she said Wednesday from her bed at the San Fernando General Hospital, where she has been a patient since the accident last Friday morning.

Injuries

She suffered a broken jaw, and injuries to her legs and arms.

Her sister, Alisha Ali-Sookraj, 19, and cousins Natasha Mohammed, 16, and Stara Kissoon, 17, were killed in the crash on the South Trunk Road, Gulf View, at around 3:00 a.m., last Friday.

The car was driven by Ali-Sookraj's husband, Geewan Sookraj, 22. He survived and yesterday underwent surgery at the hospital.

He told police that his car struck the barrier when he bent down to tinker with his radio.

Ali's father said he wanted to know the truth of what happened that night.

"One of my daughters is dead. Another is hurting bad. Accidents don't just happen," he said.

Salisha Ali recalled the tragic night.

"We didn't plan anything. We just decided to go. It was our first time at the club. It was Geewan's idea.

We got there about 11:30 p.m."

She added: "Everybody drank (alcohol). We stayed until 2:30 in the morning. Everything was good until the end."

Ali said on the way home, people argued in the car. No music was being played.

One angry passenger said "people don't know me when I get f...g mad."

The B-13 Sentra struck the concrete barrier that separated the South Trunk Road from a lay-by leading to the newly opened Gulf View branch of RBTT.

The three women, all from Claxton Bay, died at the scene.

Ali said she knows why the crash happened.

"If there was no quarrel, it would never have happened. Now I am still trying to figure out how I am alive. Why I got a second chance."

The barriers are now illuminated with reflected tape.

The San Fernando police are investigating.