Crash victim airlifted to Southampton

Monday 5th January 2004, 12:00AM GMT.

A 17-YEAR-OLD man was in a critical condition in Southampton Hospital this morning following a very serious car accident on St Saviour’s Hill.

Mark Jowett, who was one of four teenagers in the car, had to be cut from the wreckage of a white Mini Metro by Fire fighters just after 9 pm on Saturday.He suffered severe head, chest, leg and arm injuries when the car he was in smashed into the granite garden wall of Government House.Mr Jowett was initially treated in the General Hospital, but was flown to Southampton where he is now being treated in the specialist neurological unit.Samuel Arnott (18), Martyn Sansom (18) and Duarte Ferreira (17) were also injured in the crash, but their injuries are not life threatening.

The police refused to name the driver of the vehicle.Full report in today’s JEP, on sale at 1.15 pm.

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