Woman still unconscious a week after Canter truck hit her

Nov 16, 2010 News 0

A week after being struck by a Canter truck, Gretha Lewis, 60, of 243 Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia remains unconscious in the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Gretha Lewis

According to a friend who visited Lewis on Sunday at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), it appears as if the woman would be left in a vegetative state, since she was told by a nurse that the woman’s skull was fractured and there was swelling in the brain which contributed to her comatose state.
Last Tuesday, Lewis who was a Lance Corporal attached to the National Insurance Scheme and was on pre-retirement leave, was struck down by a Canter truck at Camp and Barrack Streets. According to an eyewitness, the woman was standing at the corner when she decided to dash across the road and into the path of the Canter truck before she reached the other side. The truck was carrying water containers at the time.
“The police then take the driver and the truck into the police station, and the police stop a car that take the lady to the hospital. She look like she gon dead because she get stiff, stiff and start to froth, and she de bleeding bad too,” the eyewitness said.
Lewis’s neighbours said that she lived alone and has no children, however, she has three brothers and a sister who would randomly visit her while she worked at NIS as a security guard.
According to a police source, the driver of the Canter truck was placed on bail and the matter is under investigation.