Shas­tri Boodan

A po­lice con­sta­ble as­signed to the Cou­va Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice, who was di­rect­ing traf­fic along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way, was killed when a fe­male mo­torist ploughed in­to him just af­ter mid­day yes­ter­day. The 25-year-old San Juan woman, a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine cam­pus, was up to late yes­ter­day as­sist­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tors. A white Lexus which was dri­ven by the woman has been im­pound­ed. Po­lice said PC Reynold Dob­son and WPC Wendy Lewis were on du­ty at the south­bound lane of the high­way when the dri­ver rammed in­to the un­sus­pect­ing po­lice of­fi­cers who were stand­ing at the back of a trail­er.

Dob­son from Ed­in­burgh, Ch­agua­nas, was flung sev­er­al feet in­to the air. His man­gled body was dis­cov­ered sand­wiched be­tween the trail­er and the car. Lewis, as­signed to the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion, was cat­a­pult­ed to the top the trail­er. She was tak­en to the Cou­va Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal, then trans­ferred to San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where she was ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion. Lewis, be­lieved to be in her ear­ly 30s lives at Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas. The Lexus then crashed head-on in­to a Nis­san B15, re­sult­ing in that car smash­ing in­to an­oth­er.

The dri­vers of the cars, in­clud­ing the fe­male mo­torist, es­caped with mi­nor in­juries. Rel­a­tives of the fe­male dri­ver said they were seek­ing the ad­vice of a lawyer as they be­lieved she was ques­tioned while re­ceiv­ing treat­ment at hos­pi­tal. The ac­ci­dent re­sult­ed in a ma­jor traf­fic con­ges­tion as re­pairs were be­ing un­der­tak­en to un­der­ground drains in an area north of the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um. Be­cause the ex­ten­sive work be­ing con­duct­ed on the high­way, traf­fic was re­strict­ed to one lane. Sgt Mehar­ris of the Freeport Po­lice is con­tin­u­ing in­quiries.