Prison officers hurt in Trincity crash

FOUR men, including two prison officers, are hospitalised in serious but stable condition after the car they were in overturned several times on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway yesterday afternoon.

The injured persons have been identified as prison officers Steve John and Sheldon Bandoo and Kashmir Mohammed and Michael Seunath.
According to reports, at around 3.30 pm, John, of Manuel Congo Road, Arima, was driving his B13 Sentra car west along the highway. John and his three friends were on their way to a lime. On nearing the water treatment plant opposite Trincity Mall, John lost control of the car which swerved into the highway median. The impact caused the car to mount the median and flip several times along the east-bound side of the highway. All the occupants were thrown from the car and landed on various parts of the highway. A passing motorist, telephoned the Arouca  Police and in minutes, EHS ambulances arrived and whisked the injured men to hospital. Cpl Gray of Arouca Police is continuing investigations.