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Woman loses leg, two others hospitalised after accident
A horrific motorcycle accident at Corriverton, East Berbice has left one woman with three broken ribs and other injuries, another without one of her legs, and a third under the threat of losing her right leg.
Yolande Bates showing her injured right leg.
The women, all of whom hail from Corriverton have been identified as Keisha Angel, Annette Smith, and Yolande Bates. Smith and Bates have since been transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, while Angel remains at New Amsterdam Hospital.
Smith’s daughter, yesterday at her mother’s bedside said that Bates, 43, a mother of four and a vendor of Eliza Mary, Corriverton, Berbice could also lose her right leg due the extent of the injuries.
Yesterday the injured woman speaking from her hospital bed in a low tone, told Kaieteur News that on the day of the accident Annette invited her to her birthday ‘hang’. They both went, along with their two daughters.
The woman noted that she was “not really” a consumer of alcohol so she was just consuming “the chaser”. She said that after the “chaser” had finished, she suggested to her friend, that it no longer made sense to stay at the hang out and they subsequently left on their scooter motorcycles.
Bates said that she was the pillion rider on the motorcycle piloted by Smith while their daughters shared another motorcycle.
She related that the last thing she recalled was them turning off the main road at the entrance of the village when all she felt was “pat-tow!” She explained that after the collision she didn’t know anything. It was not until yesterday after coming out of the GPHC’s Theatre that her brother showed her a video clip of the wreckage.
The tearful woman said that doctors at the health institution informed her that the bones in her leg are broken in three places. “They said that the leg was crushed badly and that it will have to be amputated.”
The mother of four with faith begged the doctors to try their best to save her leg while she and her relatives intercede on her behalf. The woman lamented that she cannot afford to lose her leg as she is the breadwinner for two of her children that resides with her, but according to the doctors the leg “does not look good.”
Meanwhile according to Smith’s daughter the driver of the motorcar that slammed into the injured women’s motorcycle is at the New Amsterdam hospital nursing injuries.
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