A four-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion on Tues­day night in South Oropouche left five peo­ple in­jured, in­clud­ing four dri­vers and a pas­sen­ger.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred just be­fore 7 pm along the high­way near the Oropouche Fly­over. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the crash be­gan when a po­lice of­fi­cer parked his car on the side of the road near the Oropouche turn-off to as­sist his rel­a­tive, whose Nis­san B15 had stalled due to a me­chan­i­cal fail­ure. The of­fi­cer’s phys­i­cal­ly chal­lenged rel­a­tive re­mained in the car while help was pro­vid­ed.

Short­ly af­ter, a mo­torist dri­ving a sil­ver Mit­subishi L200 pulled over to of­fer as­sis­tance. Once the re­pairs were com­plet­ed, both dri­vers were re­turn­ing to their ve­hi­cles when a Kia K2700 struck the rear of the Mit­subishi L200. The im­pact caused the Kia to lose con­trol, flip on­to its right side, and block both lanes of the high­way.

With­in sec­onds, a white Hon­da Vezel trav­el­ling to­wards Point Fortin crashed in­to the over­turned Kia. The Hon­da land­ed on its hood. The dri­vers, along with a back-seat pas­sen­ger in the Mit­subishi L200, sus­tained in­juries.

Emer­gency Health Ser­vices (EHS) am­bu­lances trans­port­ed the in­jured to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for med­ical treat­ment.

Po­lice towed the dam­aged ve­hi­cles to the Oropouche Po­lice Sta­tion as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.