within an hour of each other due to oil spillages and wet weather.

A number of minor collisions across the Island were reported during a downpour between 3pm and 4pm on Saturday.

A Police spokesman said a number of people had been taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment, but none were considered to have serious injuries and all were released the same day.

Two of the accidents occurred because of oil spillages on the road surface.

In one, a woman suffered minor back injuries after her car skidded and overturned on Flatt's Hill at about 3pm.

Oil was also behind a crash on Middle Road, Paget, during the same rush of incidents.

However, a 69-year-old man from Warwick was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital with chest and leg injuries at about 2 a.m. yesterday after his car collided with another vehicle on Harbour Road, Paget.

The man was believed to have been travelling west on Harbour Road, when he collided head on with an oncoming car being driven by a 27-year-old man.

Police said the crash occurred as the younger driver attempted to negotiate a sharp bend, near Saltkettle Road. He sustained lacerations and his passenger suffered a hip injury.

The 27-year-old was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving, but subsequently passed a breathalyser test.

A teenager on a cycle escaped major injury on Saturday night when he collided head on with a car as he rode along Happy Valley Road, Pembroke.

Neither him or the driver of the car, Gina Spence, were hurt, but last night a Police spokesman asked people to take extra care while driving along Happy Valley Road.

He said: "It's a very narrow, winding road and you have to negotiate the bends very carefully, especially when it has been raining and the road surface is wet and slippery.'' And Police were called at the weekend when two vehicles were found completely submerged in water.

The first was at about 10.20 a.m. yesterday when a man from Pitts Bay Road, Pembroke, reported his Toyota Landcruiser in Robinson's Marina at Somerset Bridge.

Police said the man's son had borrowed the car and then left it in Somerset with the keys still inside. When he went back, the vehicle was totally submerged in the water.

And a man had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon after his black Chevrolet pick-up truck skidded on sea moss as he was reversing towards the water at Harrington Sound and plummeted into the sea.

As the truck sank, he was able to escape from the vehicle and swim free uninjured.

The Fire Service was called to help pull the truck out of the water with a heavy wench.

Anyone with information about any of the accidents should call Police on 295-0011.