A stolen Toyota Aqua crashed on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway early Sunday after officers from the Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service’s Operational Unit intervened in an apparent getaway.

The vehicle, a Toyota Aqua valued at $70,000, was stolen hours earlier from outside Cornerstone Bar at Bhagoutie Trace, Aranguez.

Police said the owner, a 27-year-old man of Aranguez, had left the vehicle parked along Oudan Trace around 1 a.m. and went inside the bar to attend a party with friends. He told officers he had been drinking and initially searched for the car himself before making a report.