Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and his wife Nalini narrowly escaped death last night, after the vehicle in which they were being taken to a cocktail reception at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts collided with another vehicle at the intersection of the Rienzi Kirton Highway and Todd’s Street, San Fernando.
The accident left Special Branch officer Cpl Rasool, who was providing security for the AG, in a critical condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. The drivers of the two vehicles, the AG’s black Toyota Prado and Adriel Gookool, who was driving a pick-up, were not injured.
Around 8 pm, police and firefighters who were awaiting the arrival of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who hosted the reception for the VIII Americas Competitiveness Forum 2014 delegates at SAPA, rushed help the occupants of the AG’s SUV after it turned on its right side in the crash.
They climbed atop the vehicle and pulled out the AG and his wife, who was carried by a policeman to another vehicle. The Ramlogans were then taken into SAPA where a doctor checked them, Insp Mulraine told the T&T Guardian. The AG later came back outside as Rasool was being placed in the ambulance. He was accompanied by National Security Minister Gary Griffith and National Diversity Minister Dr Rodger Samuel.
Asked if he was okay, the AG told the Guardian, “I am a bit shaken, but I am all right.”