SELF-employed small scale gold miner Shaun Bacchus is still to hear from the people who struck him down with a land cruiser in the backdam at 14 Miles, Issano three weeks ago, thereby causing him to sustain debilitating injuries.Nor has the accident been reported to the police because, since the accident, the 36-year-old victim has been hospitalised and has had no opportunity to contact the police.

Having waited in vain over the last three weeks for a policeman to visit and take a report from him in hospital, Bacchus is now convinced that the offending motorist did not report the accident.

He says the land cruiser is owned by a popular, high-placed overseas mining concern, but he does not know the driver personally. And in a crass demonstration of callousness, Bacchus said, neither the company owning the vehicle nor the driver has ever visited him in hospital.

Stressing that he has never been contacted by anyone related to the vehicle, Bacchus said: “Not a visit; not a phone call; not even a bottle of drinking water or juice…” has he ever received from them.

Now warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) with a fractured right leg, Bacchus said doctors have diagnosed him as having sustained a compound fracture, with about four inches of the bone from his lower leg (above the ankle) having broken off after penetrating the flesh.

Bacchus is now laid up in bed with an external fixator to the lower leg, and is unable to move around. He does everything on the bed.

The grieving man recalled that, on August 21, he was pillion rider on a motor cycle driven by his friend Marlon when they were struck down by a land cruiser on the 14 Miles Issano Road.

Two cruisers belonging to the same company were travelling at the same time. The occupants disembarked the vehicles and, placing the profusely bleeding injured man in one of the cruisers, transported him to the company’s compound, where he was placed into a waiting ambulance which took him to the 14-Miles medic, where he was stabilised and air-dashed to Georgetown the following day by the company’s aircraft.

He has since remained a patient at the GPHC, separated from his family members and relatives who live at Goshen, Bartica in Region 7.

Bacchus would like to inform the police, by way of this article, that he has been involved in a serious accident and would like to give them a statement in this regard. (Shirley Thomas)