A 14-year-old was air-dashed to the city last night nursing serious injuries following a boating accident in the Pomeroon River yesterday.

Brad Cabose of Lower Pomeroon was on his way home from school in a speedboat in the company of other relatives when the boat collided with another one travelling in the opposite direction around 1 pm. Cabose was at the bow of the boat and reportedly bore the brunt of the collision.

He fell out of the boat and was submerged for about three minutes before he was rescued. Reports are that he was knocked unconscious upon impact. Cabose was not responding when he was pulled from the water, and he was immediately rushed to the Suddie Hospital in Essequibo.

There were no other reported injuries, and up to press time last night Cabose had been transported to the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital for a CT Scan. He suffered injuries to the neck, back and legs; the injuries to his neck were listed as serious.
Stabroek News was told that he was treated at Suddie following the accident but his condition was listed as critical – arrangements were then made for him to fly to the city. Cabose was air-dashed on a Roraima Airways flight and later transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital from Ogle.

It was just before 9 pm when he turned up at the hospital in the company of relatives and a nurse from Suddie Hospital. The family was reluctant to divulge any information on the incident, but this newspaper was told that coconut husks got caught in the engine of the boat that was travelling in the opposite direction to the boat Cabose was in. The boat then swung out of control colliding with Cabose’s family boat.