An emergency medical technician and his driver were severely injured when the ambulance they were in crashed into a concrete culvert near the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba yesterday.
Police said Kerwin Dick, an employee of Global Medical Response of T&T Ltd (GMRTT), was driving south along the Solomon Hochoy Highway with his colleague Ian Chote around 5.15 am when the vehicle reportedly veered off the road and crashed into the culvert. Passersby immediately contacted police.
Cpl Heeralal and a party of officers from the Mon Repos station responded with an ambulance and the men were taken to the San Fernando General Hospital where they underwent emergency treatment. There was no patient in the ambulance at the time.
According to a report, Dick received injuries to his chest while Chote suffered two broken legs, a fractured spine and neck. He was said to be in a critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit up to late yesterday.
Contacted yesterday, GMRTT CEO Paul Anderson said no members of the public were involved and the company would not release any information on their employees and would deal with the matter privately.