A WOMAN had to be cut from her car after three vehicles collided near the Pony Inn yesterday morning. Emergency services were called at 9 and Grand Fort Road was closed for about 45 minutes.
Two women were taken to hospital, though neither was seriously injured. Hairdresser Lisa Richards was standing on the pavement waiting to cross to her Altered Image Hair Studio when she heard a screech of brakes.
‘I looked to my right and saw that a car had come out of Hougues Magues Lane and collided with another that had come from the Capelles,’ she said. ‘The second car was spun around and hit a third one which was coming in the opposite direction.’
The third car, a silver Perodua, came to rest on top of about 10 metres of granite wall that it had been pushed into which was brought down.
A Fire & Rescue Service crew took about half-an-hour to remove the driver, a 72-year-old woman, who was taken to hospital suffering from neck pain.
Mrs Richards said the experience had been frightening.
She had seen the driver of the green Vauxhall Frontera 4×4, which had come out of the lane. ‘I felt sorry for him. He kept saying, “It was my fault”, and he was white,’ she said.
‘I parked in The Pony and if I’d done it three or four minutes earlier, it could have been me,’ she said. ‘I was shaking afterwards and I’ve found it difficult to concentrate on anything since.’
Gordon Langlois’s wife Gwen, 68, had been going to a shop in her BMW when the Vauxhall hit her vehicle.
‘The other driver [of the Vauxhall] told me he had come out of the lane and he didn’t see my wife coming,’ said Mr Langlois.
‘He hit the back of her car which caused her to spin around.’
Mr Langlois was not in the car with his wife, who was taken to hospital also suffering from neck pain.’
Grower Peter Le Page, who lives opposite The Pony Inn, had not seen the accident, but he had heard the bump.
‘There’s been a lot of accidents along here,’ he said.
‘Most of the time they’re caused by people speeding down from the Capelles traffic lights.
‘But I don’t think that was the case today as I know the driver [Mrs Langlois] and she never goes more than 30mph.’
Each vehicle had a single occupant and the driver of the Vauxhall was not hurt.
It is the island’s second serious crash in as many days.
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