EIGHTEEN-year-old bike enthusiast Shaliendar Ramcoomar, of Enterprise Gardens, East Coast Demerara, was engaged in intense preparation for the Mahdia Dirt Bike Race scheduled for late March. But he will now no longer be able to participate in that meet, because his involvement in an accident with a hit-and-run motor car on the Enterprise Public Road last Saturday has left him with a dislocated shoulder and injuries to his head, as well as some abrasions.

After that unfortunate incident, he was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he was treated and later sent home.

Relatives who accompanied him to the hospital related that a group of young men who were scheduled to participate in the motor cycle races at Mahdia next month had arranged a practice session at the Enterprise ball field at 11:00 hrs on Saturday. Since Shaliender was not at home when the other bikers were setting out for the ball field, they arranged for someone else to meet him at the ground with his bike.

When he was ready to join them, he set out on a pedal cycle for the destination, but on the way he was struck down by a speeding motor car which knocked him down and drove away without stopping to render any assistance to the injured lad.

A little boy who was nearby and witnessed what had happened raised an alarm, saying: “Watch a car knock down a man!” Public-spirited persons rushed to his rescue and, soon after, the other bikers arrived on the scene and took the injured man to hospital.