7-year-old accident victim on miraculous road to recovery

Oct 17, 2025 News

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– mother says dissatisfied with police

(Kaieteur News) – Young Tiequan Scarville, who was involved in a horrific road accident, and whose chances of survival, according to doctors, were slim, has been on a remarkable path to recovery, his relieved mother Towanna Yorrick told Kaieteur News on Wednesday.

This publication visited the Fyrish Village home of the Cropper Primary School pupil, where he was in great spirit.

Recalling the horror on the morning of October 3, Yorrick said that her son had accompanied his grandfather to drop his grandmother to work. On their way back, the two stopped at a chicken outlet at Kilcoy Public Road, Corentyne, where they met up with two of her uncles.

“And before they knew anything else, they heard the impact, and when they looked around, they saw Tiequan laying on the roadway with his forehead open,” she recounted of the chilling tragedy. Her son was struck by a canter and lost consciousness, while the driver, she said, tried to escape but was pursued by the child’s grandfather. The boy was quickly rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital.

At her home in Fyrish, Yorrick’s uncle who witnessed the accident bore the distressing news to her. She then hurried to the medical facility where she saw her son severely banged up.

Due to the severity of his condition, the 26-year-old mother said he was rushed to the New Amsterdam hospital where he was sedated and a CT scan conducted before he was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

“When we got there, they informed us that he had to undergo an emergency brain surgery. The surgery was successful. After the surgery, he was in the Intensive Care Unit,” she told this newspaper.

Doctors explained the potential post-surgery effects to her, since the situation was life-threatening. But on Wednesday, there was no sign of discomfort from the woman’s only child.

“Tiequan would’ve beaten the odds, he’s recovering well, he’s walking, he’s speaking.”

She nevertheless keeps him from school in the interim to monitor him. The child’s fast recuperation rate stunned his family. Despite being hooked up in the ICU with assisted breathing apparatus, in less than 24 hours he was breathing unaided and was removed from life support. He was kept for observation at the pediatric high dependency unit, but after encouraging improvements, he was discharged on October 9.

“We prayed, I prayed, his teachers, friends, family, everybody. We all went on our knees. Everyone was like this is indeed a miracle, because me being a nurse, seeing how my son was to how he is today, is definitely a miracle,” she declared.

The surgeon and team at the GPHC came in for rounds of praise for their critical role in Tiequan’s survival.

While she was thankful for her son’s miraculous recovery, Yorrick said she is dismayed by the seeming lack of diligence on the part of the police in delivering justice for her son. The nurse stated that every time she makes contact with the case officer at the Albion Police Station, she is updated with conflicting stories.

She said her mother had visited the station to follow up and one officer told her the case was called, while another stated that it was not. Most disappointing, she said, was when ranks told an inspector that they did not visit the scene of the accident to mark the spot, as part of standard procedure.

Furthermore, Yorrick noted that the child’s important medical report from the hospital, which was written the day after his accident, is yet to be uplifted. Officers have been giving her the runaround, she lamented.

“As of Saturday, I would have asked again, they didn’t uplift it. When I asked about the markings and the medical report, I was told ‘we’ll have to present a case file. When a case file is presented, all these things will be in the case file’,” she added.

The driver was reportedly detained for 72 hours. She disclosed that he claimed his steering wheel got stuck, but to the police he said that his brakes failed.

“I heard of other persons out there involving in accidents (or) whatever injustice that it is, and I never thought that I would be in this same situation, so frustrated, so unsure. I heard persons speak of the justice system…they have to be running around and doing all these sorts of things just for them to get some sort of justice. I’m sitting here in the same situation and it’s frustrating.”

Tiequan, she explained, is a Grade-A student who also is very consistent in his school attendance.  The single mother stressed that it is overwhelming her mentally, and made an appeal for the matter to be more judiciously handled.

The driver is said to reporting to the station.

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• Accident Victim, recovery, Tiequan Scarville, Towanna Yorrick

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