A traf­fic war­den was in­jured at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Tues­day morn­ing af­ter a mo­torist al­leged­ly drove off while re­ceiv­ing a tick­et.

Ac­cord­ing to the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the in­ci­dent oc­curred on the De­par­tures Con­course. 

Pre­lim­i­nary re­ports state that the traf­fic war­den was is­su­ing a tick­et for a traf­fic vi­o­la­tion when the mo­torist at­tempt­ed to leave, and the ve­hi­cle made con­tact with the of­fi­cer.

The Au­thor­i­ty con­firmed that its Se­cu­ri­ty Force and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) were im­me­di­ate­ly alert­ed and re­spond­ed quick­ly. 

TTPS of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed the mo­torist at the Pi­ar­co round­about.

The in­jured of­fi­cer was treat­ed by the Au­thor­i­ty’s Emer­gency Med­ical Tech­ni­cian (EMT) team and lat­er tak­en to the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty by GM­RTT for fur­ther care.

Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion, Eli Za­k­our, has been in­formed of the in­ci­dent. 

He wel­comed the ef­fec­tive re­sponse of the re­cent­ly for­malised mul­ti-agency air­port se­cu­ri­ty frame­work and con­veyed con­cern for the traf­fic war­den’s well-be­ing, wish­ing a full and speedy re­cov­ery.

The TTPS is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.