Motorcyclist prepares for fourth surgery

–after Easter Sunday accident

TWENTY-five-year-old motorcyclist Jesse Gibbs, injured in an accident with a car at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara on Easter Sunday, after having multiple surgeries for injuries sustained to his left leg, is back in the Georgetown Public Hospital where he has been admitted for corrective surgery, after the metallic bolts in his leg began having an adverse effect on the flesh. He is now awaiting his fourth surgery.
COMPENSATION
Gibbs, whose career is ruined and who to date remains confined to bed with no indication of when he will be able to use his right leg again, is now in a state of limbo and regrets having accepted a paltry sum of just over $200,000 from the motorist who caused the accident.
However, a family man with a wife and two toddlers to provide for, his domestic expenses were compelling and mounting fast. It was out of frustration and despair that several months later, he reluctantly opted to enter into the agreement.
The accident was caused by an allegedly drunken motorist and happened in the wee hours of Sunday, April 21(Easter Sunday). Gibbs, who was struck on the knee and thrown off his motorcycle into a clump of bushes, suffered an open fracture to his left knee, which still remains bolted with steel.
His pillion rider, Marino Matthias, was thrown forward and ended up under the motorcar, which almost dragged him to death, as the driver began to rev his engine to depart the scene of the accident. Fortunately, other men in the neighbourhood who mounted a search for Matthias spotted him just as the motorist had begun revving the engine. He suffered a broken leg and burns to the head and face caused by hot water from the radiator of the car.
Meanwhile, Gibbs had major complications with his tibia (knee cap) and fibula bone, located in the calf. After multiple surgeries, his left leg is now about four inches shorter than the right.