-could be in recovery for at least a year
After being severely injured in an accident on the East Bank Public Road just over two weeks ago, motorcyclist Jesse Gibbs is now an admitted patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he is weighing options that will literally change his life, while awaiting justice.
Gibbs, 27, who is now incapacitated due to the loss of a bone in his leg because of the accident, said while he is now confined to a hospital bed, the driver responsible for his condition is still going about his business as a hire car driver facing no ramifications for his actions.
“The law is lawless,” Gibbs told Stabroek News in relation to the response he has received from the police.
He claimed that it took the police one week and six days to visit the hospital and take his statement and he still has not received an update on the status of the investigation.
According to Gibbs, at about 1am on Sunday, April 20th, he was cycling down to town to attend a concert. “I was riding a bike and he was driving a car…. I see him coming and he blinked his light and I blinked back,” Gibbs recounted, before adding that he then “geared his bike down” in an attempt to ascertain what the driver
