Plaisance barber hospitalised –in Embankment Road ‘hit-and-run’
The injured Stephen Abrams
The injured Stephen Abrams

A PLAISANCE barber recently had a close shave with death in a ‘hit-and-run’ accident on the Plaisance Railway Embankment Road.Forty-one-year-old Stephen Abrams says he will be unable to return to his trade for some time yet, having sustained a broken left shoulder and broken left leg as well as bruises to the head in the accident which happened two Tuesdays ago.
Abrams, a father of one, remains warded at the Male Accident Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) . His leg is injured in two places: His ankle is broken and there is also a wound above the ankle which is preventing surgery from being performed on the ankle. The wound above the ankle was caused by a hit from the car’s bumper.
Abrams recalls that around 20:00hrs on the Tuesday night, he was walking along the Railway Embankment when he noticed some friends on the other side of the road. He hailed out to them and went over to chat briefly and was going back across the road when he was struck down.
Abrams said all be remembers was hearing a loud ‘bang’, and realising that he had been struck by a motor vehicle. Beyond that, he knows nothing else.
Witnesses said that on impact, Abrams was hurled through the air and landed dangerously in front of an oncoming car. The motorist applied brakes and averted a major catastrophe. But for the love of God, the man would have been crushed, the driver acknowledged.
As witnesses ran to Abrams’ rescue, the offending motorist took off his light and sped away. All they recall is that the hit-and-run motorist was driving a white Toyota Carina.
Meantime, the man in front of whose car Abrams had landed, trembling with fright, hurriedly exited his car, took off his jersey and strapped the wound of the bleeding barber.
The injured man was rushed to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital by a neighbourhood taxi.

By Shirley Thomas

 

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