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Accident victim recalls horror story
…he was dragged under a minibus
A 35-year-old man yesterday decided to break the silence, since he said it has been
Odingo Seewart
over a month he has been at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), nursing a broken foot, a fractured skull and abrasions.
Odingo Stewart of section ‘C’ Sophia, Georgetown, said that he is devastated to know that he is in a hospital’s bed for such a long time and is not there for his four children.
He claimed that on February 24, last, he was walking on the Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, heading towards the route 48 bus park when a bus slammed him off his feet and dragged him up Croal Street. He awoke in the hospital.
“I was walking behind an empty bus and all I realize is that the driver’s door hit me off my feet and I fell on the ground.”
He stated that he ended up under the bus and was forced to hold onto the differential, and ended up being dragged when the bus drove off. “If I de loose the back wheel would have run over my head so I had to hold on.”
Yesterday, as tears rolled down his cheeks, he said that he can never forget what transpired that day. “Every day I keep picturing what happened that day.”
He said one week after the accident, the driver visited him at the hospital and offered him money, but “I told him I can’t discuss anything about money right now because I was in too much pain. And then I was spitting blood.
He apologize to me and said that some guys were running him that day and he was just trying to hurt one of them and leave and he thought I was one of them. That is why he didn’t stop although he was dragging me,” the man claimed.
He told this publication that he is unable to do things for himself. He has already underwent three surgeries and two more are pending- one to his head and another to his chest.
“I am in pain day and night. I already had seven units of blood and every time the breeze catch the steel on my foot it pains.”
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