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St George’s man in serious condition after road crash

Odd sight: Patrick Robson visiting from Toronto, Canada snaps a photo of an SUV which careened off of the road near Barkers Hill early Sunday morning plumeting to the waters edge below. (Photo by Mark Tatem)

A 60-year-old St George’s man was last night in a serious condition in the intensive care unit at King Edward VII Memorial after his car ploughed through a fence and toppled over an embankment.The crash happened at 2.30am yesterday near the roundabout at the junction of North Shore and Palmetto Road, Pembroke.Emergency services arrived at the scene to find an SUV had gone through a wooden fence and over an embankment, according to a police spokesman.The spokesman said the car landed on the shoreline below and the driver had to be extricated from the “extensively damaged vehicle before being hoisted to an awaiting ambulance”.Yesterday evening, a hospital spokeswoman said he was moved to ICU after treatment in the emergency ward. No one else was injured in the single-vehicle accident.Police are appealing for witnesses to contract Pc Anthony Ricketts on 295-0011.Emergency services were called to the scene of another single-vehicle accident at 3.55am yesterday on Cemetery Road, Pembroke, near the junction with Serpentine Road.The driver, a 25-year-old Pembroke woman, was injured after the car she was driving hit a fence and overturned.The woman was rushed to KEMH via ambulance for treatment and later released. The car was extensively damaged.Police are appealing to witnesses to contact Pc Lloyd Peterkin on 295-0011.Meanwhile, police are investigating another accident that happened at 6.45pm on Saturday, at the junction of North Shore Road and Tatem Lane, near the Pembroke Community Club.The driver, a 51-year-old Pembroke man, sustained “relatively minor injuries” after the SUV he was driving struck a utility pole at the junction, causing power outages in the area. The driver was treated at KEMH and released and one else was hurt.Police diverted traffic from the area while Belco staff fixed the damaged pole and restored electricity to residents who had lost power because of the crash.By 1.30am yesterday, power was fully restored to the affected homes in Pembroke and the road was reopened.An 11-month-old infant detained in ICU after another single-vehicle accident on Friday was moved to the children’s ward over the weekend.The child was rushed to KEMH along with a 39-year-old Paget woman after the incident about 11.30am.The car they were travelling in along Town Hill Road, Smith’s, had collided with a wall. The female driver was treated and released, while the child remained in a stable condition at KEMH last night.Witnesses to that accident are urged to contact Pc Robin Evans on 295-0011.