Four children injured in Rio Claro

FOUR children and a 29-year-old relative sustained multiple head injuries when a car slammed into a TSTT pole, crashed into a culvert and overturned in Rio Claro yesterday morning. Doctors said the children’s injuries could be life threatening. However the children were all conscious and resting in a stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. Among the seriously injured were Jagdesh Adhar, 29, of Deep Ravine Trace, Rio Claro, his daughters: two-year-old Asha, her sister Karissa, 11, and his nephews: Amit Moon, 10, and Dillon, 11. His nephews Sanjit, nine, and Vijay, seven, received minor injuries and were treated for lacerations and discharged.

Investigators said Adhar was on his way to buy doubles for the children and his brother when the accident occurred. Police reports stated around 9 am, Adhar and the seven children were proceeding west along the Naparima/Mayaro road in a white 180B, when on reaching the vicinity of Clear Water Gardens, another car overtook him causing him to swerve to the extreme left. As Adhar swerved, he lost control of the car, which ran off the road and crashed into a TSTT pole.  The pole split in two on impact. The car then slammed into a culvert, went 15 feet into the air and then landed on its hood.
Motorists who witnessed the accident pulled crying children and the bleeding man out of the mangled wreck.

They were rushed to the Mayaro Hospital where they were treated and the five seriously injured persons transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital. Asha, Sanjay and Vijay were treated and discharged. The fire service and officers of the Rio Claro Police Station including Insp Shaffiq Mohammed,  PCs Raufs Hosein, Shane Ramkissoon and Ken Lutchman visited the scene. PC Hosein is continuing investigations.