A 29-year-old man is grateful for his life and is calling for justice after surviving a hit-and-run accident at Number 71 Village, Corentyne, Berbice on Monday.
Subash Mohan was admitted a patient to the male open ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being hit by a speeding canter.
Mohan suffered a fractured skull and ribs, a broken left leg and injuries to his eyes.
When Stabroek News visited him at his bedside yesterday, the injured Mohan, recounting what he could remember of the accident, said that the driver of the canter was speeding. According to the father of three, it was about 8 pm and he had just left a gas station at Skeldon on his motorcycle proceeding in a southerly direction when he noticed a speeding canter going in the opposite direction.
Mohan said that the driver of the canter had been going at a “real fast rate with his lights on high beam.” Mohan said that the driver of the canter was steering into his path despite him trying to evade it. According to the man, before he knew it he had already been hit by the canter.
Mohan’s wife Reshma Khan with whom this newspaper also spoke said that according to accounts given by eyewitnesses, the man continued driving after hitting Mohan. Khan said that it was a taxi driver passing at the time of the accident who placed her husband into his car and took him to the Skeldon hospital. He was later transferred to the GPH.
The driver of the canter has since been placed on $20,000 station bail.
“Dis is nah fair, I could a lose meh life because a he reckless driving an all he get is $20,000 station bail. I think he should a be in prison fuh wah he mek happen to me,” Mohan said.
