A fifteen-year-old is currently a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital after he was struck down by a car on Saturday night.
The teenager has been identified as Joshua Sookra of Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast.
The car in question is registered as number PTT 2222 and is owned by twenty-five-year-old Manisha Rampersaud of Anna Regina Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast who was driving the car at the time of the accident.
It is alleged that at about 8:30 pm the driver of the car was proceeding north on the western drive lane along Queenstown Public Road, Essequibo Coast and was about to turn right into a street. The cyclist whose cycle had no lights was proceeding south on the western carriageway when he came into the path of the vehicle. Despite attempts to avoid the collision, the bicycle collided with the left side of the front of the car resulting in Sookra suffering injuries about his body.
He was picked up and taken to the hospital where he was admitted as a patient.
Police investigations are continuing.
