The two young women who were allegedly hit by a car driven by Trinidad and Tobago football star Dwight Yorke are considering legal action, the Express has learnt.
By Irene MedinaMarsha Alexander, 19, of Sutton Street, San Fernando and her friend Kizzie Martin, 25, of Malabar, Arima, claimed yesterday they were injured in the Pigeon Point, Tobago accident last Saturday morning.
Crown Point police yesterday confirmed that they had reported the accident.
The two women are working on the island as dealers at the Royalton Casino at the Crown Point Hotel.
In a telephone interview from Canaan, Tobago, yesterday, Alexander said she and some friends were at Pigeon Point sitting on a bench at 6.30 that morning, "when the car just run into everybody."
"All of us were liming on the bench like normal. My friend (Kizzie) was standing and in two twos this car just run into everybody on the bench.
"We (Kizzie and I) ended up getting hit. We fell to the ground. My friend's head was almost under the wheel but the tyre scraped me on my foot."
She said the driver, whom she later found out was Yorke, stopped and came out of the car.
"He pulled aside and spoke with us," she said.
Alexander denied that she and her injured friend received any money from the internationally acclaimed footballer.
She said she made her own way to the Scarborough General Hospital, a short time later, while Kizzie was driven there by a friend.
After speaking with them, she said Yorke drove off. The Tobago-born Yorke was believed to have been returning to his Plantation Villa after attending the Caribbean Wet Fete at the Pigeon Point Beach Resort.
Both women had x-rays taken and were given pain killers for their injuries. Marsha has not yet filled her prescription. She said she got a bruise to her left ankle and claimed that it had been bandaged. But when the Express photographer visited the girls yesterday shortly after this interview, he said he saw no evidence of a bandage. Marsha said that there were several other people in Yorke's car, including two women, when it slammed into them.
Martin claims she was the worst hit.
"The car actually hit me off the bench and I was dragged a bit. I got a big graze on my right foot and my thigh is bruised." She said she was given four days sick leave and is on pain-killers.
She was adamant that Yorke did not pay her any money and admitted he was a bit sympathetic.
She said she was positive that Yorke was the driver of the car which she described as a B-13 with the number plate PBR 6069.
Yesterday, five days after the accident, Kizzie said she was still in pain.
Sgt Roberts of the Crown Police Police Station is investigating.
