A Police training car was involved in a collision with a private car yesterday.

No-one was seriously injured in the accident, but residents of Parsons Road have complained that Police frequently use the road for training.

Joanne Simmons, the driver of the purple Hyundai damaged in the collision, told The Royal Gazette she had made a right turn onto Parsons Road from Deepdale Road West when the Police car seemed to appear before her.

"When I looked, I just heard the crash and I struck my head,'' she said.

Numerous bystanders agreed the Police car was travelling at high speed as it travelled west down Parsons Road.

And a Police spokesman yesterday said the two officers were on an emergency run with emergency equipment activated.

But no-one heard a siren.

"That noise terrifies me,'' said Ms Simmons. "If I had heard it.. .but I was already out of the gate.'' Ms Simmons said she struck her chest on the steering wheel and her head on the window from the force of the impact. Her car was spun completely around.

Although she was able to walk unaided from the badly damaged vehicle, she said the two officers left shortly after the collision.

According to Ms Simmons, only one of the men made a brief inquiry to determine if she was unhurt.

"How do they do that to somebody? They took off without an apology? Nothing?'' she said.

And she said she decided to take an ambulance to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital only at the insistence of one of her neighbours.

"He was acting more like the Police than the Police,'' she said.

"It seems like I was in the accident by myself,'' she added.

And she said another officer who later interviewed her while she was in the hospital appeared more concerned about beginning his vacation.

"I feel like nobody cares,'' she said.

Ms Simmons also pointed out that as a merchandiser, her "car was her job'' because she was required to travel all over the Island.

"I'll never drive that car any more,'' she said bitterly. "It's a write-off.'' Although there were no eyewitnesses to the accident, numerous bystanders said they heard the Police car's high speed approach.

"I just heard the wham, a big bang,'' said one man. "He (the Police car driver) was really doing it, if he had wings on it that thing would have taken off.'' The same man said he heard the Police car's wheels skid on the road three separate times. He pointed to the distance between a distant skid mark and the car's final resting place on the sidewalk.

Residents also lashed out angrily about the Police Service's use of the area as a training course for cars and motorcycles.

"This is where they test their machines,'' said one man.

"Those Police race here every day,'' added another. "That's the biggest complaint we've got around here.'' ACCIDENT AC