Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Doc­tors bat­tled to save the life of a four-year-old child af­ter the car in which she was trav­el­ling col­lid­ed with an­oth­er ve­hi­cle in Moru­ga on Car­ni­val Mon­day. Up to late yes­ter­day, Ash­ley Ar­joon, of St Mary's Vil­lage, Moru­ga, re­mained ward­ed in a crit­i­cal but sta­ble con­di­tion at San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 3.30 pm, Ar­joon was sit­ting on the left pas­sen­ger seat of a car dri­ven by 75-year-old Shem Hamil­ton when an­oth­er ve­hi­cle dri­ven by Dar­ius John­son, crashed in­to the back of their car.

Po­lice said John­son, a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer, was dri­ving his brown Maz­da B15, north along the Moru­ga Main Road be­hind Hamil­ton's car, when John­son at­tempt­ed to turn in­to a yard on the west­ern side of the road. Po­lice said John­son pulled to the left and then to the right and col­lid­ed with the front of the pen­sion­er's car. Both ve­hi­cles were dam­aged, but Hamil­ton and John­son es­caped un­hurt. The child was tak­en to hos­pi­tal where she un­der­went emer­gency treat­ment. She re­mains ward­ed at the hos­pi­tal. PC Vil­lafana is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.