30 April,2009 08:23 AM IST | | AFP
Olympic athletics sensation Usain Bolt suffered only minor injuries Wednesday when his BMW skidded off the road and overturned in a ditch.
"I am good," Bolt told fans as he limped away from hospital with small bandages on his feet.
Bolt's manager Norman Peart said the athlete's feet were pricked by thorns when he exited the vehicle.
"He was taken to the Spanish Town Public Hospital, where he was treated. He has been sent home for recovery," Peart said.
Sergeant David Shepherd of Old Harbour police in St. Catherine said the accident occurred on Highway 2000 at about 1:30 in the afternoon. Police said the vehicle was extensively damaged, after apparently skidding on the rain-slick road, but neither Bolt nor the unidentified woman travelling with him was seriously hurt.
