Two days af­ter a crash left her un­con­scious, cy­clist Keiana Lester is now sta­ble and com­mu­ni­cat­ing with fam­i­ly, friends and well wish­ers, new T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion's Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer Rox­anne Ram­nath said yes­ter­day.

The 19-year old cy­clist who is card­ed to go to train­ing at the World Cy­cling Cen­tre in Switzer­land in April next year with her com­pa­tri­ot Kol­lyn St George, was on Sun­day trans­ferred to a ward at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, fol­low­ing a surgery on her hip. On Sat­ur­day Lester was hit by a car while train­ing with the Rigtech Son­ics Cy­cle Club in Erin ahead of her train­ing stint in Switzer­land.

Yes­ter­day she was still sport­ing a neck brace with pins in­stalled at her legs to sup­port her hip. The ac­ci­dent has since re­vived calls for a spe­cial lane for cy­clists to train on the na­tion's road ways.

Ram­nath de­scribed the ac­ci­dent as un­for­tu­nate, say­ing all is be­ing done to as­sist the cy­clist with her re­cov­ery. Lester, a two-time Pan Amer­i­can gold medal­list has been tout­ed as one of T&T's bright prospects in the sprints, hav­ing shown ex­plo­sive speed in the sprints events for the past years.

Her sched­uled train­ing stint in Switzer­land came via an in­vi­ta­tion from the world gov­ern­ing body for the sport- UCI, which ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion with her abil­i­ty, as well as that of St George. As such the stint is geared to­wards as­sist­ing their de­vel­op­ment in the fu­ture.