A section of the wall outside the Ministry of Labour’s Overseas Employment Office in Kingston was damaged yesterday following an accident involving a Mercedes Benz motor car and a Honda Integra.

Corporal Courtney Nugent, who was on the scene of the accident, said the driver of the Benz, Emile Lieba, was heading south on East Street and the driver of the Integra, Robert Hart, was heading east on North Street at the time of the accident, but somebody disobeyed the traffic signals.

“The (traffic) light is in perfect working order,” Nugent said. “And both drivers are saying their light was saying green.”

Nugent said he had not yet received any information from an independent eyewitness to corroborate any of the men’s stories.

Neither Hart, an assistant news editor with the Gleaner, nor Lieba, an attorney with Myers Fletcher and Gordon, was seriously hurt, but Lieba complained of neck pains and was taken to hospital.

Both vehicles were taken to the Swallowfield Examination Depot, where they were passed as in good working order.

Nugent, in the meantime, said that cases in which both drivers deny that they were in the wrong usually end in civil action.