Car crashes in Keys

By L.K. Hewlett
Editor – SKNVibes.com

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TWO ambulances and a fire truck raced to Keys Village just before 8 last evening responding to reports of an accident along the island’s main road.

Police and Fire and Rescue arrived to find a white Honda Accord crashed front first into the wall of a residential property, its rear a few feet above ground.
 
Initial reports at the scene indicate that the car, PA 6683 was headed toward Basseterre when it hit a front end Backhoe, skidded out of control and slammed into the wall some 100 feet from the original point of impact.
 
Miraculously, there were no reported injuries to the young man who was the sole occupant of the car and the emergency vehicles returned to Basseterre.

Residents gathered at the scene told SKNVibes.com that they were surprised when the driver emerged from the extensively damaged car seemingly unhurt.
 
The front windscreen of the car was shattered and both front airbags had been deployed but the driver, Michael 'Cobb' Phillip of Molineux was seen walking about the scene immediately after the crash.

SKNVibes.com spoke with the driver of the backhoe who said the machine was sitting idly, partially off the road.

“I was not in the machine when the car hit it. It hit the front end of the backhoe, started zigzagging and then ended up in the wall. I didn’t hear any brakes,” he explained.

He informed that the hazard blinkers on the backhoe were on at the time and other drivers had slowed when approaching the construction site. 

He also said he had been called in with the backhoe that evening to remove the pile of sand from obstructing the traffic.

Police officers on the scene would not make any official comment but said they were investigating the accident. In 2006 Phillip was involved in a more serious traffic accident when the car he was driving struck a teenage girl then crashed into a wall. The young girl suffered two broken legs from the impact.