A 14-year-old girl is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle in the vicinity of Company Road, Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD) around 11 am yesterday.
Injured and in a critical condition at the public hospital is Leota Eastman of Vigilance, ECD who sustained injuries to her face, a broken leg and lacerations to her body. She was being attended to by doctors when Stabroek News arrived at the hospital yesterday. The Toyota Allion car, bearing registration number PNN 7827, that was involved in the accident had its entire front windscreen damaged. The bicycle the girl was riding was missing a wheel and was also badly damaged as it lay in the middle of the road at the scene.
Eastman was returning home after running an errand.
A relative of the girl, who requested not to be named, said she learned from eyewitnesses that the driver of the car, who was allegedly speeding and heading in the direction of Georgetown, swerved from another car and hit the child flinging her and her bicycle a short distance away.
The relative also said that the driver then picked up the injured child and rushed her to the public hospital for medical attention.
She added that the child’s mother, who was at home cooking, was informed about the accident after the child was rushed to the hospital. The girl’s mother who was present at the institution was reluctant to speak as she sat weeping. The driver of the car is in police custody assisting with the investigations.
