Vehicular smash-up at Point Salines

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Parent Category: Jan 2012

Category: Week end Jan 21st, 2012

Published on Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:27

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Two men including an American Citizen are nursing injuries following a vehicular smash-up on the Point Salines main road last Saturday. The accident which occured just after 7:00 p.m. took place close to the Special Services Unit (SSU), a few yards away from where DJ Caution lost his life three years ago in another vehicular accident.

One of the affected vehicles, PAD 910 was driven by the American, Edgar Wooten, and the other PAE 630 being driven by Shane Anthony John. The head-on collision resulted in the air-bag in both vehicles being released.

Police are working on the theory that the American Citizen who is currently residing at South Winds Apartment at Grand Anse, St. George’s was driving on the right side of the road while traveling in the rented Nissan car belonging to Maitland’s Motor Sales & Rentals.

In Grenada, motorists drive on the left side of the road unlike the United States where drivers use the right side. There are reports that Wooten appeared to be puzzled over the correct side on which he should drive causing him to collide with the Honda car being driven by John, the son of Sergeant of Police, 210 Anthony John.

Quick action on the part of fire-fighters of the Grenada Fire Service managed to get John out of the car that was badly damaged. With the use of a Jaws of Life, the firemen had to cut the driver’s door in order to release John.

However, before John was pulled out of the wrecked vehicle, the emergency medical team from the St. George’s General Hospital had to place a brace around the injured man’s neck. John was also seen with blood on the upper part of his body.

Wooten, the American Citizen suffered injuries to the right leg as he cried out in agony as the medical team attended to him at the back of a tour operator bus. The two injured men were carried away in the same ambulance to the General Hospital where they were warded as patients.

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