Rishard Khan

rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

Six peo­ple were in­jured in a sin­gle-ve­hi­cle ac­ci­dent in St Ann’s yes­ter­day when the ve­hi­cle they were trav­el­ling in ran off the road and in­to a house a short dis­tance from the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre.

De­tails were still com­ing in up to press time yes­ter­day but the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer Michelle Lewis told Guardian Me­dia the six oc­cu­pants were tak­en to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

It was un­clear at the time if there were any fa­tal­i­ties.

The ac­ci­dent oc­curred af­ter mid­day and videos be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia of three of the oc­cu­pants.

One was cov­ered in blood crawl­ing from the wreck, an­oth­er was ly­ing on the floor and one was be­ing at­tend­ed to by a fe­male.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the scene, the vic­tims were al­ready trans­ferred to hos­pi­tal and the po­lice were re­mov­ing the ve­hi­cle from the prop­er­ty.

The own­er of the home, David St Cyr said the prop­er­ty is be­ing rent­ed out and no one was home at the time of the in­ci­dent.

“We re­ceived re­ports from neigh­bours that a car crashed in­to the prop­er­ty so im­me­di­ate­ly we jumped in our cars and came here on­ly to find that the car was on the side,” he said.

St Cyr said this is the sec­ond time a ve­hi­cle tra­vers­ing the road crashed in­to his wall, the first be­ing “many years ago.”

He said while he is com­fort­ed know­ing no one was home at the time of the in­ci­dent, his main con­cern is for the lives of the ve­hi­cle’s oc­cu­pants.

“Who cares about dam­age to prop­er­ty? It’s life that we should be fo­cus­ing on at this point. I mean that wall could eas­i­ly (be) re­paired,” he said.

While the cause of the ac­ci­dent is still be­ing de­ter­mined, he ques­tioned if the oc­cu­pants were re­turn­ing home from a New Year’s par­ty and urged the pop­u­la­tion to be re­spon­si­ble and vig­i­lant as the na­tion’s biggest par­ty pe­ri­od, Car­ni­val, ap­proach­es.