A man was up to last night in a critical condition at the Georgetown Hospital after a car hit him from behind on the East Coast Public Road in the vicinity of Two Friends yesterday morning.
Colin Sam, of Dochfour, East Coast Demerara, said to be in late 30s, was riding his bicycle along the 
Two Friends Public Road on his way to tend to cattle at around 8.30 am when a car hit him from behind, shattering his leg and causing numerous other injuries about his body.
The driver of the vehicle involved in the collision has been taken into police custody.
According to relatives, the lower part of one of the man’s legs was barely hanging by skin and muscle tissue with the bone protruding. Up to late yesterday the man was being attended to in the operating theatre.
A passing police patrol vehicle brought the man down from the scene of the accident to the Georgetown Hospital at around 9 am yesterday.
Sam’s face and the upper part of his body including an arm were also injured. The man is reported to have lost a lot of blood as a result of his injuries.
Passers-by said that the man’s mangled bicycle was still wedged under the car, some hours after the incident.
Sometime after the man arrived at the hospital, his relatives turned up and upon visiting him one at a time while in the treatment room emerged teary eyed upon seeing his condition. They said that the man was still in a conscious state but was evidently in a lot of pain.
