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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Cyclist warded after intersection crash

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In an ac­ci­dent in which two men claimed they had the right of way, a mo­tor­cy­clist was left se­ri­ous­ly in­jured yes­ter­day and his mo­tor­cy­cle bro­ken in­to frag­ments.

The crash hap­pened at the in­ter­sec­tion at Chancery Lane, just out­side the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, short­ly af­ter 10 am, at­tract­ing scores of on­look­ers and cre­at­ing a traf­fic pile-up along In­de­pen­dence Av­enue.

Po­lice said Jer­rod Phillip was rid­ing his Yama­ha mo­tor­cy­cle on­to Chancery Lane when he was struck by an old mod­el Mit­subishi two-door pick-up dri­ven by Cara­pichaima pen­sion­er Tony Boodans­ingh who was en­ter­ing the hos­pi­tal from Har­ris Prom­e­nade.

Phillip, who was struck from the side, was thrown in­to the wind­screen of the van be­fore land­ing and slid­ing in­to the pave­ment. His hel­met was al­so dam­aged and blood was seen in the slip­way when passer­by and hos­pi­tal work­ers rushed to as­sist him.

He was tak­en to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment by a South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) am­bu­lance and re­mained ward­ed up to late yes­ter­day.

Boodans­ingh's pick-up stopped when it crashed in­to a light pole and rail out­side the San Fer­nan­do Teach­ing Hos­pi­tal, leak­ing en­gine oil on­to the pave­ment.

Boodans­ingh, who walked with a cane, was with his wife, Par­batie. They were tak­en to hos­pi­tal where they were treat­ed for mi­nor in­juries and kept for ob­ser­va­tion.

Of­fi­cers from the near­by San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion were on the scene quick­ly as pieces of Phillip's mo­tor­cy­cle were scat­tered on the in­ter­sec­tion.

Eye­wit­ness­es said one of the men broke the traf­fic light, re­sult­ing in the ac­ci­dent. How­ev­er, po­lice said both men claimed their lights were on green.


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