Latest update February 10th, 2025 2:25 PM
National cyclist in hospital after Sheriff Street accident
– relatives find Police inaction frustrating
The future of 29-year-old Continental Cycling Club rider, Lear Nunes, is in limbo following a horrific accident on Saturday last on Sheriff Street.
National Cyclist Lear Nunes
According to reports, on Saturday the driver of a vehicle PJJ5053 made a u-turn on Sheriff Street in the vicinity of Subryanville and struck Nunes who was riding a motorcycle. The incident occurred at about 16:00 hours. To date there has been no proper police action and all efforts to contact the other party involved have proven futile.
Up to press time yesterday Nunes was still a patient at Woodlands Hospital nursing broken bones in one of his legs.
From his hospital bed yesterday Nunes said that on the day in question he and a friend were riding along Sheriff Street towards the seawall when a vehicle which was being driven by a female made a sudden u-turn.
“I tried to avoid the accident because it was sudden and I slammed into the back of the vehicle; the driver stopped briefly and I began to slip in and out of consciousness,” Nunes related while grimacing in immense pain.
Since his hospitalization, Nunes said, he has undergone two surgeries, but there is no guarantee that he will ever be able to ride again. To add to his grief Nunes said there has been no acknowledgement on the part of the person responsible for the accident.
Nunes’s wife, Jacqueline Henry, told this publication that on the night of the accident Troy Cadogan visited the hospital and began making inquires.
“He came and started to enquire about the hospital bill but when the doctor started telling him what needs to be done because of the extent of the injury, he reportedly said that he will be in contact but that was the last (time we saw him),” Henry said.
She added that ever since, their calls to Mr. Cadogan have gone on unanswered. Now the woman said she is left with a hospital bill which is in excess of $800,000. “We are not looking for anything from these people; all we are asking is that we meet and come to some agreement, even if we don’t agree on how the accident happened. The least that can be done is that they show some consideration. It’s an accident; it could have happened to anyone,” Henry said.
Nunes displays his injury at the hospital yesterday.
The woman added that her husband was the one taking care of their two children at home and did other work in an interior location but now with his injury he has no means of income.
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