The Four Paths police are probing the circumstances which caused a trailer to overturn and crush a five-year-old girl in a motor vehicle in Clarendon.

It is alleged that the 45-year-old truck driver from a Kingston 2 address responsible for crushing the child is to be charged with careless driving.

The dead girl is identified as Janae Sutherland.

THE STAR was informed by the police that on Wednesday at 12:20 p.m., the trailer and a RAV4, in which the child and her mother were travelling, were involved in an accident.

The vehicles had been travelling along the Swansea main road in Four Paths, when it is reported that the trailer, which was behind the RAV4, was overtaken by a taxi at the intersection of the Swansea and Bellplain main roads.

During the overtaking process, the RAV4 attempted to turn, but the trailer got into difficulties and the driver is reported to have lost control of the vehicle which fell on the RAV4.