A 37-year-old GUYOIL driver is now a patient in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital after his vehicle was hit by a car, whose occupants abandoned it and fled the scene on Valentine’s Day.

Nazim Juman of 7 Better Hope South, East Coast Demerara was driving a black pick-up around 3 am on Sunday along Mandela Avenue heading to the GUYOIL Service Station on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) when the accident occurred.

According to his brother, Omar Juman, Nazim was taking the supervisor and a guard to the EBD location when a silver Toyota Carina AT 212 car slammed into the side of the pickup. Omar said the vehicle his brother was in flipped about four times and the occupants of the car fled the scene.

An eyewitness reportedly told Nazim’s relatives that the speeding car had jumped a major road on Mandela Avenue and slammed into the pick-up.

The relatives said they were also told that Nazim was pitched from his vehicle and “fly up in the air” and landed a short distance from the vehicle.

The other occupants of the pickup were not seriously injured.

Omar told this newspaper at the hospital that the car reportedly had some five persons in it and they fled the scene after hitting the vehicle his brother was driving. Nazim Juman sustained a broken right foot, rib and hands.

The broken rib, Omar said, punctured one of his brother’s lungs and completely damaged the other.
He was also said to have sustained a fractured skull, a broken hip and neck injuries and is currently attached to a life support machine.

When Stabroek News visited the hospital his wife, Marcia Ramlakan, said she was told that he was in a coma.

Meanwhile, the car which was abandoned after colliding with the GUYOIL vehicle was said to be lodged at the Ruimveldt Police Station.