Teenage girls hurt in car crash

Tuesday 2nd March 2010, 2:59PM GMT.

The entrance to the Magistrate's Court

THREE teenage girls were injured in a car accident at the weekend, the Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday.

The three 14-year-old girls, who were in the back of the car, were catapulted into the front during the crash in the early hours of Saturday morning. St Helier Centenier Anthony Batho said that the car skidded before colliding with another vehicle. Both cars hit a lamppost.

‘The three girls were all treated in hospital,’ said Centenier Batho. ‘One had a neck injury and one had a spinal injury and one had pains in her chest.’ They have all now been released from hospital.

The driver of the car, Pedro Miguel Batista Da Costa Pinto, appeared in the court yesterday charged with drink-driving, driving dangerously and carrying passengers in such a way that danger was caused on Grande Route de St Jean.

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