TWENTY-six-year-old Jesse Gibbs, a motorcyclist who sustained multiple compound fractures to his left leg in an accident with a car at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara in 2013, was on Wednesday readmitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital for the sixth time; on this occasion, to have an external fixator applied to his badly broken leg for the fourth time.An external fixator is a device which stabilizes and supports fractured bones. These devices are used in cases where casts would not provide sufficient support to healing bones.

Gibbs claims that the bone in his leg is not accommodating the weight of his body, and this situation is rendering it impossible for him to walk. Initially, the metallic bolts were having an adverse effect on his flesh, and so they had to be removed.
External bone fixation is used as a temporary treatment for fractures, or may be used in cases where internal fixation is not possible. To fit an external fixator device, holes are first drilled into undamaged bone surrounding the location of the fracture. Metal pins are inserted into the holes, and the external fixation device is then fitted onto the pins and adjusted to provide the necessary support for the fractured bone. Most of the fixation device is located outside the body, with only the metal pins coming into contact with the bone (wiseGEEK).
Gibbs was injured on Easter Sunday 2013 when a car driven by an allegedly drunken driver ploughed into the motor bike he was riding, knocking him and his pillion rider about like ninepins in a bowling alley. Gibbs was found in a clump of bushes at the roadside, while his pillion rider — after much searching by persons in the area — was discovered trapped under the car that had knocked them. He was spotted just as the belligerent driver had got back into his vehicle and began revving his engine to move the car off. Gibbs said that as the vehicle was about to drive off, the searching men spotted his pillion rider’s hand beckoning them from under the chassis of the vehicle. They raised an alarm and the driver turned off the engine.
The injured men were both rushed to hospital, and Jesse Gibbs has since been in and out of that institution. Notwithstanding, the motorist went away smiling, having paid one of the victims a paltry sum of $200,000, whilst the other victim received nothing.