Olympic champ Bolt to skip track meet surviving car accident

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-05-01 20:18

The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, has escaped serious injury in a car crash in his native Jamaica which wrecked his high-speed sports car.

Olympic champ Bolt to skip track meet surviving car accident

Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt is followed by journalists while leaving the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine parish, Jamaica, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. [Agencies]

Jamaican flyer Bolt claimed 100 meters gold in Beijing in a new world record time.

The IAAF, the world governing body of athletics, gave graphic details of Bolt's lucky escape on its official Web site www.iaaf.org.

The 22-year-old, who was driving his BMW M3 with two female passengers, lost control and went off a rain-soaked road.

The car ended up overturned in a ditch and Bolt and his passengers had to clamber out through a bed of thorns before being taken to hospital in Spanish Town, near Kingston, as a precaution.

Bolt was released after three hours, with his feet strapped with bandages, after undergoing a minor operation to remove embedded thorns from his foot. He told a local reporter: "Me good man. Me all right, a just few cuts man, me all right."

As a result of the accident, Bolt will miss Saturday's Jamaica International Invitational meeting and is expected to be sidelined for at least a week.

Don't Miss Bolt aims to speed up goal ace Ronaldo "We will continue to monitor his progress over the next few days," Bolt's agent Ricky Simms told reporters.

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