The vic­tims from this morn­ing's hor­rif­ic ac­ci­dent on the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way have been iden­ti­fied as na­tion­al foot­baller 27-year-old Shah­don Win­ches­ter; his friends Michael Brad­shaw, Ke­ston Nicholas and 30-year-old Djenne Hills-Dy­er, a hair­dress­er.

The four friends were re­turn­ing home af­ter lim­ing at a club in Cou­va, which is owned by a foot­baller.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, at about 5:30am, a Nis­san Xtrail was head­ing along the south bound lane. Up­on pass­ing the Union Road fly­over, the dri­ver lost con­trol of the ve­hi­cle, pulled to the left and slammed in­to a T&TEC pole.

On im­pact, the trans­former fell on the ve­hi­cle and ex­plod­ed, caus­ing the ve­hi­cle to be­come en­gulfed in flames.

The oc­cu­pants were trapped in the ve­hi­cle and were burnt be­yond recog­ni­tion.

The blaze was ex­tin­guished by fire fight­ers, but no one was al­lowed to go close to the ve­hi­cle un­til the T&TEC crew gave the all clear.

The ve­hi­cle with the charred bod­ies was re­moved from the scene just af­ter 9 this morn­ing, and tak­en to a fu­ner­al home in San Fer­nan­do.

Po­lice have con­firmed that the ve­hi­cle is reg­is­tered to Shah­don Win­ches­ter.

The ac­ci­dent caused traf­fic grid­lock along the high­way this morn­ing.