Drivers dispute over Bay Road traffic accident
By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief, SKNVibes.com
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TWO men are disputing each other’s claim of not being the person responsible for a two-vehicle collision on the Bay Road in Basseterre yesterday afternoon.
At about 4:30 Thursday afternoon, two vehicles collided on the Bay Road in the vicinity of David Coury & Co. Ltd., which resulted in damages to both vehicles and dissension between the drivers.
The vehicles involved in the accident are a Nissan Murano [P1750] driven by Toure Holder of Frigate Bay and a Mitsubishi jeep [P3233] driven by Derek ‘Negus’ Bradshaw of Walwin Avenue, Basseterre.
Bradshaw claimed that while slowly driving out from where his vehicle was parked in front of David Coury & Co. Ltd., Holder’s vehicle collided with the left side of his jeep causing damages to the fender, bumper and wheel.
Bradshaw told SKNVibes that he was heading west along the Bay Road when “suddenly I heard a loud sound coming from the left side of my jeep as a vehicle sped past me. The collision caused my vehicle to be thrown up in the air and drifted to the right. However, another vehicle was parked in front of mine and I immediately applied brakes so as not to collide with it”. 
He claimed not to have been the one to cause the collision, noting he had observed all the rules when moving off and out of a parking area into a traffic lane. Bradshaw also claimed that he had looked to the rear from the driver’s side of his vehicle and believed he could have gone on his journey unhindered because the Nissan Murano had not reached College Street Ghaut, which was some distance away from Coury’s business establishment.
Asked if the distance between the two vehicles would have allowed him enough time to engage the left driving lane without incurring an accident, Bradshaw it was enough and “he had to be driving at a fast rate to have crossed the Ghaut and collided with my vehicle”.
He also claimed that Holder did not stop immediately after the collision but some distance away from the point of impact.
~~Adz:Left~~When approached by this media house for a comment on the accident, Holder was reluctant and said he did not care for the matter to be in the media. SKNVibes however overheard him saying that he was not driving at a fast rate and Bradshaw was to be blamed for the accident.
Holder also said he was driving in the same direction and in the lane provided for that, while he believed Bradshaw could not have seen him approaching because he was on Bradshaw’s “blind side”.
The front right bumper of Holder’s vehicle was slightly damaged along with scrapes to the right headlight, as well as damage to the steering and a shifting to the rear of the right front wheel.
Police investigations are ongoing.
