A WOMAN from Alderney had to be flown to Guernsey on Saturday night with life-threatening injuries sustained in a road accident. Christine Walters, 62, is today in the Princess Elizabeth Hospital with serious head injuries.
Her condition was described this morning as comfortable and stable.
The accident happened at 7.30pm and the Aurigny medevac left at 8.48.
Her partner, Jon Simmons, was also hurt in the accident. He is in Alderney’s Mignot Memorial Hospital with what a police spokesman described as superficial, non-life-threatening injuries.
The couple were hit by a white van which was turning right into the Lower Road from Braye Road.
They had been crossing the road from the railway station to the Moorings bar and restaurant.
The driver of the van, a young local man, was questioned by police and released pending further enquiries.
Accident investigators had intended to fly from Guernsey to Alderney yesterday but were unable to do so due to gale-force winds stopping flying.
They hope to get to the island today to carry out a full investigation.
Alderney police are appealing for people who saw the collision, vehicle or pedestrians prior to the accident.
They would particularly like to hear from the driver of a vehicle which was stationary at the stop line on the Lower Road prior to the accident.
After the collision, residents helped out before the emergency services arrived, with one of the local jurats directing traffic and other people tending to the injured pedestrians.
The accident was one of two serious incidents in Alderney at the weekend. In the early hours of Saturday, the chief ambulance officer’s car was stolen and set on fire.
Mel Walden used the vehicle in her work and said the theft could have delayed an emergency response and cost someone their life.
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