Af­ter nar­row­ly sur­viv­ing a car crash on Sun­day morn­ing which claimed the lives of four friends, Ap­peal Court judge Wen­dell Kan­ga­loo yes­ter­day re­mained ward­ed in the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) at Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex. Kan­ga­loo, 56, of West­moor­ings, sus­tained se­ri­ous head in­juries in the crash. He re­mained ward­ed in a sta­ble but crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the hos­pi­tal. In an in­ter­view at the hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day, court pro­to­col and in­for­ma­tion man­ag­er Jones P Madeira said doc­tors at the fa­cil­i­ty per­formed CT scans to Kan­ga­loo's cra­ni­um to gain deep­er ap­pre­ci­a­tion of his in­juries. Madeira said the se­nior judge would be con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tored by doc­tors over the next 24 hours. Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie, who re­turned to Trinidad on Sun­day evening af­ter a trip to the Unit­ed States, al­so vis­it­ed Kan­ga­loo yes­ter­day.

Madiera al­so ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the rel­a­tives and friends of the four vic­tims of the car crash. In a brief in­ter­view, Archie said he was un­able to com­ment on Kan­ga­loo's con­di­tion but not­ed he had faith in the doc­tors. He ad­mit­ted he was un­able to speak to Kan­ga­loo dur­ing the 15-minute vis­it. At around 5.30 am on Sun­day, Kan­ga­loo was trav­el­ling east along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way when a white Hon­da Civic col­lid­ed with the judge's Toy­ota Pra­do, just af­ter Sa­van­nah Dri­ve, Trinci­ty. The oc­cu­pants of the Hon­da Civic were Ryan Ramtha­hal, 25, of In­dus­try Lane, Bel­mont; Jevon Spencer, 22, an em­ploy­ee of the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion, of Willis Street, Bel­mont; Je­re­mie Soy­er, 24, of St James and 16-year-old Megan Richards of Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin. They were re­turn­ing home from the open­ing of a club in Ari­ma. Kan­ga­loo, a horse own­er, was on his way to the Ari­ma Race Club at San­ta Rosa to wit­ness ear­ly morn­ing gal­lops. Trav­el­ling with the judge were two po­lice­men-Con­sta­bles Mar­tin Cae­sar and Ter­rence For­tune-who had been as­signed as Kan­ga­loo's se­cu­ri­ty de­tail dur­ing his stint as act­ing Chief Jus­tice. They suf­fered mi­nor in­juries in the crash and were dis­charged from hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day morn­ing.