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Teen victim in Vigilance accident clings to life
Leota Eastman now battles for life
The 14-year-old Vigilance, East Coast Demerara girl, who was struck down by a car on Saturday last, is still in a critical state in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The driver of the vehicle that struck her was granted bail to the tune of $100,000 yesterday.
According to reports, Leota Eastman was heading to a bakery in Buxton to run an errand for her sickly father when the mishap occurred.
Her sister, Oleta Eastman, said that she was told that her sister was heading to the bakery on her bicycle when a car, heading east along the embankment collided with another one, exiting from another street, Company Road.
“I wasn’t there, but I heard that the car that hit her was heading east on the embankment when another one leave the cross street, so as to avoid a collision, the one that hit her swerved from that car and go into the other lane and hit her,” the teen’s sister stated.
Kaieteur News understands that the driver was returning home from work when the incident occurred.
Leota Eastman sustained a fractured skull, broken left leg and head injuries.
At the hospital, her weeping mother could not have gathered the courage to watch her daughter lying motionless on a bed, surrounded with wires, but she sat patiently in front of the ICU and questioned each and every person that visited her.
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