The Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway junction at Debe, photographed on December 23, 2016. Archive view; not a photograph of a reported crash or the November 2026 police briefing. Grueslayer @Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Unmodified. Image source · License.
Trinidad and Tobago police reported 74 road deaths compared with 102 in the corresponding period last year, according to the Trinidad Guardian’s account of a police briefing. TTT News separately reported the decline as 27 per cent, alongside a fall in the number of traffic tickets issued.
The reported ticket total was 84,263, down from 114,447 in the comparison period. The Guardian identified breaching traffic signs, seatbelt violations and failure to have a vehicle inspected among the most frequently recorded offences. Acting Traffic Branch Inspector Jesse Jitmansingh presented the enforcement figures at the weekly police media briefing.
The Guardian put the potential value of tickets for nine fixed-penalty offences at TT$171,223,500. That is a calculation of potential penalties, not verified money collected by the state.
TTT also reported plans to introduce digital breathalyser equipment before the end of the year, with improved recording and storage of evidence. The equipment was described as a planned measure, not an already completed rollout.
The fatality comparison covers the period reported by police, rather than the whole of 2026. Lower ticket totals alone do not show how much offending changed, and the figures do not establish that increased fines caused the reduction in deaths.
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