Po­lice are look­ing for an au­to me­chan­ic who took a Nis­san GTR su­per­car he was paid to ser­vice out for a joyride on Sun­day and crashed it, de­stroy­ing the ve­hi­cle com­plete­ly.

Busi­ness­man Imi­ti­az Edoo, the man who bought the car for his son five years ago, con­firmed the in­ci­dent yes­ter­day, say­ing he was shocked at the man's ac­tions.

"When we heard, we were so shocked. We just sent it in for a rou­tine ser­vice and now it's de­stroyed."

Edoo, own­er of Edoo's Weld­ing and In­dus­tri­al Sup­plies Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, said he and his fam­i­ly had just re­turned from a fam­i­ly va­ca­tion and were still on board an air­craft at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port when they learned of the ac­ci­dent.

"As soon as we land­ed and my son switched on his phone we were bom­bard­ed with mes­sages from friends and peo­ple on so­cial me­dia who know the car," he added.

He said he had spo­ken to the me­chan­ic yes­ter­day and the man promised to turn him­self over to the po­lice. He said when he bought the car in 2010 it cost $1 mil­lion.

"I spoke to him and he said he will go down to the sta­tion. He said he will pay us for the car but that will take years and years. There is noth­ing to sal­vage, we have to suf­fer now be­cause of some­one else's care­less­ness."

The car, the same mod­el dri­ven by de­ceased Fast and Fu­ri­ous ac­tor Paul Walk­er in the pop­u­lar se­ries, was wrecked and tak­en to the San­ta Flo­ra Po­lice Sta­tion.

Po­lice said around 2 pm on Sun­day, of­fi­cers of the San­ta Flo­ra Po­lice Sta­tion were called to the scene by res­i­dents of Los Ba­jos Main Road who wit­nessed the ac­ci­dent.

The pas­sen­gers were iden­ti­fied by po­lice as Ri­car­do Mil­lette and Ronald Jef­frey, both of San­ta Flo­ra.

The men were tak­en to the Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty where they were treat­ed for mi­nor cuts and bruis­es and dis­charged.

The car, PCS 88, was seen speed­ing through the area min­utes be­fore the dri­ver lost con­trol as he reached Mad­hos­ingh's Fu­ner­al Home. The car went up in­to the air, over­turned and land­ed in a ditch, but not be­fore slic­ing the branch­es off a near­by man­go tree. –SR