Vehicle drives off hill --- Passengers slightly injured.

Philipsburg:--On Wednesday morning at approximately 09.45 a.m. the Central Police dispatch received a phone call informing them, that a jeep in which 4 persons were driving, for unknown reasons had driven off the Sandpiper road and landed between the cliff and the back of a building located on the premises of the garage of Intermar Shipping in Point Blanche.
Immediately after receiving this information several police patrol were sent to the scene to investigate. On the scene the patrols encountered the four occupants of the jeep. They were all U.S. citizens, visiting the island for the day. The driver of the jeep with the license plate R-776 came out uninjured. The female passenger sitting next to the driver injured her right arm and elbow and suffered from other minor small cuts and bruises to her body. The female and male passenger sitting at the rear of the jeep complained of some pain to their elbows and head. They too suffer other minor bruises to their body. All victims were treated on the scene by the paramedics and then transported to the Sint Maarten Medical center for further treatment. The height from which the jeep fell is approximately the height of a two story building. The police traffic department was in the the scene and has started their investigation to determine the exact cause of the accident.