RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Two mo­tor­cy­cle po­lice of­fi­cers es­caped death when they col­lid­ed with each oth­er at an in­ter­sec­tion in San Fer­nan­do a short while ago.

The ac­ci­dent oc­curred in front of the home of CNC3 cam­era­man Ivan Toolsie. Pre­lim­i­nary re­ports in­di­cate that the of­fi­cers PC Joseph and PC Har­riper­sad had just left the San Fer­nan­do Li­cens­ing Of­fice and were re­turn­ing to base at the San Fer­nan­do po­lice head­quar­ters on their po­lice mo­tor­cy­cles when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

As the of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed north along In­de­pen­dence Av­enue and came to the in­ter­sec­tion of Ruth Av­enue, they saw a mo­torist dri­ving a Nis­san Note, at­tempt­ing to turn right from Up­per In­de­pen­dence Av­enue, in­to the new­ly built link road that con­nects La­dy Hailes Av­enue.

That part of the road is un­der con­struc­tion and there is no street traf­fic sign alert­ing mo­torists to im­pend­ing dan­ger.

A wit­ness said as PC Joseph stopped to alert the mo­torist, PC Har­riper­sad who was head­ing in the same di­rec­tion, crashed in­to PC Joseph's mo­tor­cy­cle. PC Joseph flew up in the air and land­ed on his back.

Con­sul­tant Sur­gi­cal On­col­o­gist Dr Am­miel Ar­ra who was close by came to as­sist the of­fi­cers. PC Joseph suf­fered in­juries to his back and pos­si­bly a bro­ken leg.

An off-du­ty fire of­fi­cer who was dri­ving be­hind al­so as­sist­ed and called the Emer­gency Health Ser­vice am­bu­lance. Two MTS of­fi­cers al­so ar­rived and watched over Joseph as he lay on the ground.

The of­fi­cers were tak­en by am­bu­lance to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Guardian Me­dia will keep you up­dat­ed on this sto­ry as more in­for­ma­tion comes to hand.