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A FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist, now on a hospital bed, is alleging that the man who caused his injury had flagrantly violated the rules of road safety.
Colin Stayman, a father of two, who lives at Lot 206 Charlotte Street, is angry that he was injured but is still glad to be alive and was not flung under a moving hydraulic trailer. He said his misfortune happened last Friday when he suffered multiple fractures to his right hand, a puncture to his right knee and minor abrasions about the body.
Stayman said he was returning home after visiting his relatives in West Ruimveldt, also in Georgetown, when, in the vicinity of the old Sanata Textiles Factory, he was involved in the accident with a speeding motorist trying to overtake the hydraulic trailer.
It was shortly after 17:00hrs and, according to him, the motorist, driving at a fast rate, was “attempting to do something very stupid and irresponsible.”
“He was attempting to overtake a long trailer on a busy road,” Stayman said. He recalled he and the driver were proceeding in opposite directions but the other man drove into his lane.
Imminent danger
Stayman said when the man, whose name he still does not know, realised the imminent danger facing him, he panicked and, in order to save himself, he swerved and struck Stayman.
“When I saw what was happening, I tried to swerve out of the way, but, with him there, there was not much space and so he clipped me. My motorcycle was hurled into the air and I landed heavily on the road,” the hospitalised man related.
He said, moments later, he got up dazed, then discovered that one arm was broken and his right knee punctured.
A woman who witnessed the accident went to his rescue and, together with another passing motorist; they placed him in a car and took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Meantime, the motorist who hit him, attempted to flee the scene but an irate crowd quickly surrounded and prevented him from getting away.
Soon after a passing police patrol arrived and took the man in custody and both his car and the motorcycle were taken to a station, too.
Stayman is due to have surgery today but he is perturbed over the fact that the man had approached the police and tried to give the impression that the patient is not desirous of legal action.
However, police are continuing their investigations into the incident.
Colin Stayman, a father of two, who lives at Lot 206 Charlotte Street, is angry that he was injured but is still glad to be alive and was not flung under a moving hydraulic trailer. He said his misfortune happened last Friday when he suffered multiple fractures to his right hand, a puncture to his right knee and minor abrasions about the body.
Stayman said he was returning home after visiting his relatives in West Ruimveldt, also in Georgetown, when, in the vicinity of the old Sanata Textiles Factory, he was involved in the accident with a speeding motorist trying to overtake the hydraulic trailer.
It was shortly after 17:00hrs and, according to him, the motorist, driving at a fast rate, was “attempting to do something very stupid and irresponsible.”
“He was attempting to overtake a long trailer on a busy road,” Stayman said. He recalled he and the driver were proceeding in opposite directions but the other man drove into his lane.
Imminent danger
Stayman said when the man, whose name he still does not know, realised the imminent danger facing him, he panicked and, in order to save himself, he swerved and struck Stayman.
“When I saw what was happening, I tried to swerve out of the way, but, with him there, there was not much space and so he clipped me. My motorcycle was hurled into the air and I landed heavily on the road,” the hospitalised man related.
He said, moments later, he got up dazed, then discovered that one arm was broken and his right knee punctured.
A woman who witnessed the accident went to his rescue and, together with another passing motorist; they placed him in a car and took him to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Meantime, the motorist who hit him, attempted to flee the scene but an irate crowd quickly surrounded and prevented him from getting away.
Soon after a passing police patrol arrived and took the man in custody and both his car and the motorcycle were taken to a station, too.
Stayman is due to have surgery today but he is perturbed over the fact that the man had approached the police and tried to give the impression that the patient is not desirous of legal action.
However, police are continuing their investigations into the incident.
