Derek Achong

Two weeks af­ter he was crit­i­cal­ly in­jured in a car crash which claimed the lives of four peo­ple, Ap­peal Court Judge Wen­dell Kan­ga­loo's con­di­tion is im­prov­ing grad­u­al­ly. In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, court pro­to­col and in­for­ma­tion man­ag­er, Jones P Madeira, how­ev­er, said he was still in a co­matose state. "I am ad­vised that his doc­tors are grad­u­al­ly re­duc­ing his med­ica­tion and he is re­spond­ing well to treat­ment. His vi­tal signs are sta­ble," Madeira added.

Kan­ga­loo, 56, of West­moor­ings, is ward­ed at the world-renowned Johns Hop­kins Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal, Bal­ti­more, Mary­land, USA. He was flown to the US with­in days of the crash and is re­ceiv­ing spe­cial­ist treat­ment. Be­fore leav­ing Trinidad, Kan­ga­loo was said to be suf­fer­ing from swelling of the brain as a re­sult of in­juries to the head. Around 5.30 am on May 20, a Hon­da Civic crashed in­to Kan­ga­loo's Toy­ota Pra­do SUV af­ter cross­ing the me­di­an near Or­ange Grove Sa­van­nah Road, Trinci­ty, on the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way. The four oc­cu­pants - Ryan Ram­ta­hal, 25, of In­dus­try Lane, Bel­mont; Je­re­my Soy­er, 24, of St James; Jo­vaughn Spencer, 22, of Braith­waite Street, Bel­mont; and Megan Richards of Bagatelle Road, Diego Mar­tin - died on the spot.