Shar­lene Ram­per­sad

Three peo­ple were in­jured in a four-ve­hi­cle col­li­son along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way, Clax­ton Bay, yes­ter­day.The ac­ci­dent caused traf­fic to pile up for miles along the south-bound lane.Em­manuel Bir­choon, 65, the dri­ver of one of the ve­hi­cles in­volved in the ac­ci­dent, a Nis­san 280 C, said he was at­tempt­ing to ex­it the high­way on­to the For­res Park over­pass, when he was forced back on­to the busy road­way by an­oth­er mo­torist.

"I was try­ing to go left, to come off the high­way and this car squeeze me back on­to the road," said Bir­choon."The next thing I know, one truck slam in­to me and pushed my car against the oth­er truck, which hit the SUV."Bir­choon, who walked away un­hurt, said he felt lucky to be alive as his car was com­plete­ly de­stroyed in the crash. "The man that 'bad dri­ve' me just gone he way. I feel lucky to be alive and glad no­body died."

The dri­ver of the SUV, Adesh Siewah and his front seat pas­sen­ger, Cindy Lee Madoo, along with one of the truck dri­vers, Pe­ter Sookhoo, were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment by an am­bu­lance. The oth­er dri­ver, Dhan­raj Ma­habir, was un­hurt.Emer­gency med­ical per­son­nel on the scene said no one was se­ri­ous­ly hurt as a re­sult of the ac­ci­dent, de­scrib­ing the in­juries as mi­nor.

Fire sub-of­fi­cer at­tached to the Savonet­ta Fire Sta­tion, Mar­lon Ford, said that par­tic­u­lar stretch of road­way, was known for many se­ri­ous ac­ci­dents."The sta­tion reg­u­lar­ly gets calls to as­sist with ac­ci­dents here. It is most like­ly be­cause of the sharp bend in the road, that most peo­ple mis­cal­cu­late and run-off," said Ford.High­way pa­trol of­fi­cers, PC's McIn­tyre and Guer­ra along with WPC Teles­ford, of the South­ern Di­vi­sion High­way Pa­trol, are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.