According to a press release from the gendarmerie stated that the first accident happened sometime around 11pm. According to reports the rider of the motor cycle lost control after some sort of unforeseen circumstances.
While attending to the rider who was injured two other motorcycles came from the other direction, they each had on pedal riders. It is understood that the riders of the other motorcycles were riding at high speed; they eventually crashed into the gendarmerie vehicle and another car that was parked in close proximity. The gendarme vehicle was used to block the road as they attend to the first victim.
Eventually all five persons, the three riders and two pedal riders who know each other had to be transported to the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital for medical treatment.
The main road leading from Cole Bay to Marigot had to be cordoned for more than two hours as the gasoline and other debris had to be cleared off the roads.
The gendarmes had to also tend to another accident when a van travelling from Cole Bay to Marigot slammed into the back of a pick up truck as it climbed the slope going towards the monument. The condition of the occupants is not known up to press time.
The gendarmes also conducted a drug and alcohol control on Saturday night. Some 70 vehicles were controlled while ten gendarmes participated in the exercise.
Fines were given to at least two drivers who surpassed the legal limit of alcohol use while there was no trace of drugs found in their vehicles.
Another driver is also summoned to appear in court on March 5 2009 after he was found to be heavily intoxicated.
