RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Two peo­ple nar­row­ly es­caped death when the ve­hi­cle in which they were trav­el­ling burst in­to flames ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

Up to mid­day yes­ter­day, Michael Mor­gan, 40, of Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont and Ariel James, 22, of Old Road Mor­vant re­mained ward­ed in se­ri­ous con­di­tions at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 5 am, Mor­gan was dri­ving his Mit­subishi Mi­rage south along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way, when the ve­hi­cle skid­ded near the Gas­par­il­lo Over­pass.

It then crashed in­to sev­er­al of the sup­port­ing iron posts of the crash bar­ri­ers on the west­ern side of the south­bound car­riage­way. Wit­ness­es said the posts sent the car in­to a tail­spin and it hit a con­crete pil­lar on the west of the south­bound fly­over. 

Just be­fore it burst in­to flames, Mor­gan and James were able to crawl out of the wreck. A par­ty of of­fi­cers from the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion and the St Mar­garet Po­lice Sta­tion which in­clud­ed WP Ag Cpl Hep­burn, PC Khan and PC Seep­aul re­spond­ed. Fire Of­fi­cers led by Ag FS­SO Ar­rindell ar­rived a short while lat­er and ex­tin­guished the fire. 

Mor­gan and James were rushed to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where they re­ceived emer­gency at­ten­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.