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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Two warded after crashing while running from police

by

Ralph Banwarie
1901 days ago
20200511
The vehicle in which two men were injured in a crash while on the run from police.

The vehicle in which two men were injured in a crash while on the run from police.

A Ja­maican na­tion­al and an­oth­er man were hos­pi­talised af­ter the ve­hi­cle they were in crashed as they were pur­sued by po­lice af­ter fail­ing to stop in po­lice road­block over the week­end.

The two men are now ward­ed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 6 pm on Sun­day they were con­duct­ing a road­block ex­er­cise in the Matu­ra dis­trict us­ing the ZBB-X-ray ve­hi­cle when a car with two oc­cu­pants was stopped and the dri­ver was asked to pass through the scan­ner but in­stead sped off.

The of­fi­cers pur­sued the car south along the To­co Main Road but on reach­ing near the squat­ting vil­lage at Ve­ga de Oropouche, it over­turned and crashed in­to a wire fence on the west­ern side of the road­way. Both oc­cu­pants were in­jured and sub­se­quent­ly tak­en by po­lice to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, where they were treat­ed and ward­ed.

Af­ter po­lice con­duct­ed a trac­ing on the dri­ver they dis­cov­ered that he was a Ja­maican na­tion­al. The ve­hi­cle was searched by po­lice and noth­ing il­le­gal was found.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, po­lice al­so con­duct­ed 53 stop and search op­er­a­tions and three fixed penal­ty tick­etswere is­sued.

The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Augi­lal, su­per­vised by ASP Gabriel Joseph and in­clud­ed Sgts Renne Kat­wa­roo, Gar­cia and of­fi­cers from the East­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force, San­gre Grande, Matu­ra and Va­len­cia sta­tions.


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