A HIT-and-run accident at Tain, Port Mourant, Corentyne last Saturday has left GuySuCo cane harvester Rampersaud Mingo with three fractures to his left leg, and the likelihood of not being able to use the limb for the remainder of the year.

The 54-year-old had just stepped out of his house and was about to cross the Tain main thoroughfare to buy food at a restaurant when a speeding car struck him down. He landed heavily on the road and was unable to get up, but was picked up by public-spirited residents and rushed to the Tain Hospital, before later being transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, before finally being evacuated to the Georgetown Public Hospital that same night.

The GPHC X-Rays have shown that Mingo had sustained a fractured left patella (knee cap) and two other fractures to his mid tibia.

Witnesses have said that the car did not stop to render assistance, but ‘picked up speed’ (accelerated) after hitting the man and disappeared into the dark night.

All Mingo could remember was that the car that struck him was white, and appeared to be new or in very good condition.

Although the police had been notified, no formal statement has been taken since the patient had to be whisked away to hospital.