By Sara Bharrat
A 14-year-old boy who was hit by a motor vehicle on the Back Road on Tuesday afternoon has not been seen since by his family.
Jason Pilgrim of Front Road, West Ruimveldt left his mother at her confectionary stand by the Botanical Gardens on Tuesday afternoon to go to change his clothes but he never returned.
According to Pilgrim’s mother, Sandrine Williams, she received a phone call shortly after 1.30 pm that afternoon. “They told me that my son was hit down by a car and that the driver gone with him to the hospital,” she said.
Williams told this newspaper that residents around the immediate area of the accident said that the driver of the car was speeding in an attempt to overtake another vehicle.
“I went to the scene of the accident Tuesday afternoon and this one man told me how he thought my son de dead,” Williams said.
She went on to explain that the man said the car slammed into her son and knocked him into the air after which he landed on the road.
The distressed mother said she was further told that her son managed to crawl to the corner of the road and he was crying out for pain in his back. There was no blood at the scene, she said, but residents told her that her son was in great pain.
The driver of the car, according to reports from residents, put Pilgrim into his car and informed them that he was taking the teen to the hospital. Williams said that she scoured all the city hospitals for her son but could not find him. “I checked Brickdam and Ruimveldt Police station but they told me nobody report no accident involving a boy,” the woman related.
She went on to tell Stabroek News that they were able to locate the driver of the vehicle and that up to 6 pm last evening he was being questioned by the police about the matter.
“He [the driver] said that he take my son to (a private) hospital for treatment and then put him in a taxi,” Williams said. “When de taxi driver show up (at the police station) he told us that he drop my son back to the scene of the accident.”
The distressed mother said that the taxi driver told her that Jason said he was going to his girlfriend’s house. Williams said that her son does not have a girlfriend and she does not understand why her son was not dropped to his house or to her confectionary stand.
“My son is well known and I know that had he been able to walk he would’ve come home by now. I am only praying that nothing has happened to him,” Williams said with tears in her eyes.