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Man carrying baby in arms knocked down by motorbike
The injured motorcyclist and Ken lying on the road shortly after the accident
By Shervin Belgrave
Kaieteur News – A man identified only as Ken was on Monday afternoon struck down by a speeding motorcycle while crossing the road at Saffon Street with his two month-old-son in his arms.
The accident took place close to 17:00hrs while Ken, his wife and other relatives were heading towards the market to purchase some items. He was reportedly knocked down next to the pedestrian crossing. Eyewitnesses said that his wife and family had already made it safely across the road with him following closely behind when an XR motorcycle heading south slammed into him. They alleged that Ken held onto his baby and put his body on the line to take most of the impact in an attempt to save the child from pitching or falling onto the paved road. “He tried to make the baby fall on him”, one eyewitness claimed while adding that his efforts were not enough to prevent the baby from being forced out of his hands as he fell on the road.
The eyewitnesses rushed out into the traffic to pick up the child quickly. There was not much abrasion seen on his skin but a section of his head was severely swollen. As for his father, he was reportedly bleeding profusely from an injury to the back of his head. A public-spirited-citizen called an ambulance immediately and assisted by placing a blanket under his head to sap up the blood and slow down the bleeding. A short distance away laid the motorcyclist close to his bike with multiple injuries to his face and body.
Concerned about the baby’s condition, public-spirited citizens rushed the child to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in car for immediate medical attention. Meanwhile others stayed behind with the severely injured Ken and the motorcyclist awaiting the ambulance.
They were outraged because an ambulance attached the Guyana Fire Service took almost half an hour to arrive at the scene. “That is why people does dead in this place look how long this ambulance coming like dem gon come when these people done dead”, they argued. The Emergency Response Team (EMT) in response claimed that a first caller did not give them the right directions and they ended speeding off to another location. It was only when they returned a call from a second caller that they learnt where the accident scene was. Both men were still conscious when they were rushed to the city hospital.
Kaieteur News learnt that Ken and his family are from a Region Seven village and had only travelled to Georgetown earlier that morning.
They stopped at the Amerindian Hostel on Princess Street and decided to visit the La Penitence Market when tragedy struck.
His relatives said that Ken travelled with his young family for a medical check-up at the hospital but they did not expect that he and his baby would have to be rushed there with serious injuries that could be life threatening.
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