Latest update November 5th, 2024 1:00 AM
Two friends critical following Hope accident
Kaieteur News – Two friends are hospitalised with a broken leg each after the motorcycle they were on collided with a motor car.
The injured motorcyclist has been identified as 20-year-old Joshua Jack of Lot 321 Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara (ECD). His pillion rider, 19-year-old Neavon Evans, who resides at Lot 73 Victoria Village, suffered ruptured kneecap, along with lacerations about the body.
Critical, Joshua Jack and Neavon Evans
According to investigators, around 22:30hrs on Saturday, the two young men were travelling on motorcycle CL 2981 along the Hope Public Road, ECD, with motor car PKK 5325 heading in the same eastern direction.
Everton Parkes, a 56-year-old driver of Lot 52 Victoria Village, ECD, told lawmen that while in the process of overtaking his motorcar, the motorcycle collided with the right side rear of the car.
As a result of the impact, Jack and Evans fell onto the roadway and received multiple injuries about their bodies. They were subsequently picked up by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where Jack was examined by a doctor on duty and later admitted to the Emergency Ward suffering from a broken right leg.
According to his mom, pillion rider Evans sustained a ruptured kneecap and is in need of a replacement; he also received injuries about his body and was admitted with multiple lacerations.
A breathalyzer test was conducted on the car driver, who also hails from Victoria Village, and 0.00% BAC micrograms was found in his system.
During a telephone interview with Kaieteur News, Shondell Evans, the mother of Neavon Evans, said that she was sleeping at the time and was awaken by a passerby sometime around 22:15hrs, who informed her that her son was involved in an accident.
She hurried to the scene of the accident, but by time, she arrived her son was already rushed to the GPHC.
She went to the hospital where she saw her son laying in the Emergency Ward crying out for pain “Doctor, doctor pain! ow man, pain,” her son cried out in a weeping voice in the Ward. Evans is set for surgery in the next few days, his mother noted.
Yesterday, Kaieteur News made several attempts to contact Jack’s relatives. Those efforts, however, have proven to be futile. Investigations are ongoing.
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