Angry residents of Golden Grove set fire to a vehicle on Tuesday night, shortly after it struck down a teenage boy, ran into a parked minibus and damaged the fence of a barber shop.
Trevon Abrams, 18, was struck off his bicycle by the speeding gold-coloured pick-up minutes after he had left his mother’s home at Lot 10 Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
The young man, who is a mason, was heading back to his father’s house at Nabaclis, ECD.
Abrams sustained a broken jaw, lost some of his teeth, and has abrasions to the left side of his body. His father, who rode up just minutes after the accident, took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital in a passing taxi.
An eyewitness, James (only name provided), said the teen was coming out of a street when the gold-coloured pick up came speeding along and struck him down. The teen was thrown about 20 metres away from the point of impact.
James said, “Is like, if you see somebody you would try to stop. But after he hit [Abrams] the speed he was coming with make him run into the back of a man bus wuh been park in front of the barber shop.”
The driver then attempted to flee, but was attacked by angry villagers who then set fire to his vehicle. The fire, which scorched the vehicle, was soon put out by police officers who arrived on the scene.
The driver was arrested and is still in police custody.
Marilyn Wilson, Abrams’ mother, said her son had left her home around 5 pm to go back to his father’s house in Nabaclis. The next thing she heard was that he was at the GPH.
He is currently a patient in the Male Surgical Ward.
