A female police motorcyclist suffered a blackout while riding and collided with a police car on the Beetham Highway yesterday. She was treated for a fractured arm and other injuries.
Around 9.30 am, WPC Leela Modeste of the Highway Patrol Unit was heading east when she began feeling unwell, police said.
Modeste, who joined the Police Service two years ago, clipped a patrol car which had driven up alongside her and fell off her motorbike.
The accident happened near the NP gas station and caused a traffic build-up as two east-bound lanes of the highway were temporarily blocked off. Modeste’s colleagues took her to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, where she was treated and warded.
Contacted yesterday, a senior police officer said she was “doing fine.” He said the routine patrol was a normal daily occurrence and it was unfortunate that Modeste fell ill while on duty.