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Relatives of child on life support stage fiery protest
…as errant driver granted station bail
Gavin Douglas
By Fareeza Haniff
An eight-year-old girl is now hospitalized in an unconscious state and on a life support machine with severe head injuries and a broken leg after being hit by a car in Canal Number One on Monday.
But relatives of the child staged a fiery protest action yesterday afternoon in the community after the driver, who is an overseas-based Guyanese, was granted $30,000 station bail.
The child’s father Gavin Douglas, along with other relatives and residents of the area blocked traffic yesterday after they set alight a number of items, including tyres on the road. This saw a number of policemen arriving on the scene and bringing the situation under control.
According to Douglas, he is upset over the fact that his daughter who is a student of the Genesis Primary School (a private institution) is still unconscious and on life support, but the driver was nevertheless granted bail at the Vreed en Hoop Police Station.
The man fears that the driver will leave the country, and he will get no justice. According to Douglas, on Tuesday, someone (name provided) visited him at the hospital and informed him that the man was scheduled to leave the country on Tuesday last, and his check-in time at the airport was 11:30 hrs.
After this, Douglas noted that he informed the police at Vreed en Hoop Police Station about the man’s
The protestors in Canal Number One.
intended plans, but despite this, the man was placed on $30,000 station bail without lodging his passport..
“Today (yesterday) is when the police come to take measurements from the accident scene…this afternoon…this is not fair man…we need some justice,” Douglas said emphatically.
“I get a call from the doctor at the hospital…the scan come through and the doctor told me that he can’t help the child any longer.”
Kaieteur News understands that on Monday afternoon, the eight-year-old came off the school bus, and was attempting to cross the road, when the car hit her.
“The child come off the bus…come in front of the bus and peep out to see if anything coming, and the peep that she peep out, he hit her in the head. He swerved from a bump and end up hitting she,” Douglas related to this newspaper.
The man vowed that the protest would continue until some sort of justice is served.
“We need some sort of justice, because this is not right. A man hit down my child, and she is on life support machine and he got $30,000 station bail…that is just wrong.”
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