A woman is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter be­ing struck by an out-of-con­trol ve­hi­cle while at­tempt­ing to cross the road on Wednes­day.

Po­lice said the woman suf­fered ex­ten­sive in­juries and was un­re­spon­sive at the In­ten­sive Care Unit of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. An­oth­er fe­male pedes­tri­an al­so sus­tained se­ri­ous in­juries and re­mains hos­pi­talised in sta­ble con­di­tion.

The women were cross­ing the Main Road near the Are­na Com­plex, Point Fortin when around 11.55 am, a man dri­ving a black Toy­ota Field­er wag­on at­tempt­ed to avoid them.

The dri­ver lost con­trol of the ve­hi­cle, which slammed in­to the women.

As seen on CCTV footage of the ac­ci­dent, one of the women was thrown in­to the air and land­ed on the pave­ment while the oth­er was dragged un­der the ve­hi­cle.

The dri­ver, a 39-year-old clerk from Point Fortin, told po­lice he lost con­trol af­ter his ve­hi­cle skid­ded and spun three times.

He was tak­en to the near­by po­lice sta­tion, where a breathal­yser test was con­duct­ed, which he passed. The dri­ver was re­leased pend­ing fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Of­fi­cers of the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

—Sascha Wil­son