A HIRE car driver, his wife and an assistant superintendent stationed at Suddie is hospitalised at the Suddie Public Hospital, Region Two, nursing serve injuries about their bodies after they were involved in a vehicular collision on the Johanna Cecilia Public Road on Thursday evening.

The accident involving motorcar HB 9504 and PVV 9556 occurred around 16:15 hours. According to information received, assistant superintendent, Colin Primus, who is in charge of the Richard Faikall Police Training College, was one of the drivers of the vehicles in the accident. Primus suffered a fractured right foot and laceration to the head. His condition was listed as critical.

According to a police release, Tariq Baksh, the driver of the hire car, was traveling along with his wife at the time of the accident. The vehicles were said to be traveling in opposite directions when the accident occurred.

It was revealed that the officer had put on his indicator to turn right and while he was doing so, the hire car allegedly collided with the left front side of his vehicle.

The impact resulted in the police officer’s vehicle spinning clockwise before it ended up on the parapet. The hire car driver ended up on the opposite parapet of the road.

As a result of the collision, both drivers along with a female passenger received injuries. The driver of the hire car suffered trauma to his head and his wife suffered serious neck and back injuries. Eyewitnesses related that they were alerted by a loud impact, and they rushed to the scene to render assistance.

“I see them all helpless when we immediately put them in a vehicle and send them to the hospital. I can’t really say if it was speeding, all I know is that I heard the loud noise and ran out,” one of the eyewitnesses said.

Police are continuing their investigations.