he scene in Route du Longfrie, St Peter’s, after William Craig’s poorly-maintained trailer parted company with his vehicle and the jet ski on it broke free and smashed through the windscreen of an oncoming car. (Picture by Nigel Baudains, 0560403)

A COUPLE said yesterday they were lucky to be alive after being struck by a jet ski while driving their car in St Peter’s.  The driver and his wife were covered by shards of glass when the machine smashed through their windscreen after a trailer being towed by an oncoming car broke free.

The woman, a front-seat passenger, was taken by ambulance to Princess Elizabeth Hospital and treated for cuts to her head and hand. She was released later that day.

The driver, who asked not to be named, was not injured but said he and his wife were lucky not to have been killed in the freak accident.

But he did think the penalty handed down yesterday to William Craig, a £200 fine and three-month ban for causing injury by using a faulty vehicle, was fair. A further fine of £50 was imposed for the lack of a number plate on the trailer.  In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Mr Craig, of Jacaranda, Rue Rocheuse, St Peter’s, admitted the offences and offered his sincere apologies to the couple in the other car. The court accepted that he had not been speeding.