SASCHA WIL­SON

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A cut­lass-weld­ing man dam­aged a Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) ve­hi­cle dur­ing a road rage in­ci­dent in Princes Town on Sat­ur­day. The T&TEC crew was not in­jured.

A po­lice re­port said around 11.30 pm the work­ers, the 43-year-old dri­ver, the crew su­per­vi­sor and the lines­man were in the com­pa­ny’s Mit­subishi Can­ter truck trav­el­ling along St Croix Road Ex­ten­sion when they heard a loud sound.

The dri­ver stopped the truck and a white Hyundai pick-up van with a male dri­ver and fe­male pas­sen­ger pulled up along­side the truck and stopped.

The dri­ver of the van came out and ap­proached the T&TEC dri­ver, claim­ing that the T&TEC truck col­lid­ed with his van caus­ing dam­age to his right side door mir­ror. He de­mand­ed com­pen­sa­tion and this led to an ar­gu­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice, as the ar­gu­ment grew heat­ed the dri­ver of the van then took a cut­lass from the tray, walked back to the T&TEC ve­hi­cle, struck it with the cut­lass dam­ag­ing the front wind­screen, right and left front win­dows.

When con­tact­ed, T&TEC cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions of­fi­cer Clare Coop­er con­firmed the com­pa­ny’s ve­hi­cle was dam­aged dur­ing an in­ci­dent but did not di­vulge any de­tails.

She said the TTPS and T&TEC po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

Mean­while, the po­lice said of­fi­cers have in­ter­viewed sus­pects in re­la­tion to ma­li­cious dam­age to T&TEC prop­er­ty and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing. PC Khadoo is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.