T&T's undefeated boxer Giselle Salandy, dead in vehicular accident
January 4th, 2009

T&T's Jizelle Salandy in the ring on Boxing night where she won her bout against Yahaira Hernandez on Boxing Night

Trinidad and Tobago's world class female boxer Giselle Salandy has died following a vehicular accident early this morning.

C News understands the boxer was in her black Yaris vehicle driving west along the Beetham Highway in Port of Spain around quarter past seven when her she picked up a skid by National Petroleum.

Police say she hit a concrete cylinder lying at the side of the road and went approximately 143 feet airborne. The vehicle then dropped and hit the pillar of the flyover.

Officers say when they arrived on the scene Salandy was unresponsive.

She was rushed to the Port of Spain General Hospital where she died in casualty.

Police say the other passenger female footballer, Thamer Watson is in stable condition.

21 year old Salandy was fighting in the boxing ring since the age of 13. Her last fight was on December 28 2008 when she defeated Yahaira Hernandez of the Dominican Republic.

She had won all of her 17 professional bouts.

Click here to read Giselle's bio page courtesy Wikipedia