Top international yachting correspondent injured in Auckland

10:52 AM Tue 2 Mar 2010 GMT

'Stuart Alexander pictured during last year’s Louis Vuitton Pacific Series' Richard Gladwell

One of the world's leading yachting correspondents was injured in in a car accident in Auckland today.

Stuart Alexander (65), yachting correspondent for the UK daily, The Independent, who is in Auckland for the Omega Cup and Louis Vuitton Trophy, was injured when a SUV backed over him, while he was crossing a street in Auckland's downtown area, just after midday.

Alexander went underneath the vehicle.

Tonight he was resting in Auckland Hospital on his 65th birthday, and is reported to be in stable condition and in remarkably good spirits, despite a leg injury and multiple broken ribs on his right side.

It is not known whether charges will be laid against the driver of the SUV.

by Richard Gladwell

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