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April 6, 2006

Driver in Providence Place mall crash speaks

The driver of the mall security vehicle that nearly plunged from the fourth level of the Providence Place parking garage earlier in the week has been hospitalized since the Tuesday incident.

"I didn’t go home," Ramon LaBoy, 22, of Warwick, said this morning in a phone interview, referring to media reports that he was treated and released soon after the accident. "I was in the hospital – I'm still in the hospital ... I broke my thumb to the point that they have to put a pin in it, and they put me on a machine to monitor my heart all day and all night."

LaBoy, who has worked as a security guard at the mall for about a year and a half, said he doesn't remember driving his patrol car through a barrier on the edge of the parking garage, nearly plunging over the edge.

"I remember driving around doing regular patrols," LaBoy said, talking on a cell phone this morning from his hospital bed. "The next thing I know the EMTs were pulling me out of the [patrol car]. The doctors are saying possibly that I had a seizure when I was driving, or I fainted."

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