LABOURER Ravi Bahadur, 32, of Number 47 Village, Corentyne, was hit by a speeding Tapir vehicle yesterday morning and was admitted at the New Amsterdam Hospital.Bahadur, alias ‘Black boy,’ had left his home at 04:45 hrs, and was walking to work in the ‘backlands’ when he was struck down.
His mother, Reena Bahadur, told this reporter at his hospital bedside that she was sill in bed when she received a message that her son was involved in an accident.
She said, “Some one pick him up in their car and them came to pick me up. We then went to Skeldon Hospital where he was taken to the theatre, before being transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital.”
Bahadur, married and father of three, sustained a gaping wound to his forehead and nose.
The driver of the vehicle is in police custody.
