A LITTLE girl who was seated at the front of her relative’s motorcycle escaped with minor injuries on Wednesday morning when a Toyota Noah car and a motorcycle almost collided on Lama Avenue, Bel Air, Georgetown as the biker fell while trying to avoid a huge pothole.

The male relative then parked the damaged bike after the accident and left in a taxi to take the child, who was bleeding from the face, to the hospital for medical attention.

The child’s slippers were left on the roadway while the motorcycle, CH 7254, was parked not far from the Guyana Chronicle’s back gate.

According to Kenard Jabar, he was driving motorcar GRR 5035 just before 08:00hrs south along Lama Avenue, Bel Air Park at a normal rate of speed when he saw a motorcycle carrying a little girl seated in front sliding off the wet roadway as the biker tried to avoid a huge pothole on the road. The motorcycle and the car were heading in opposite directions with the biker going north towards Vlissengen Road via Lama Avenue when the incident occurred.

Jabar explained that as he swerved to avoid hitting the bike, he crashed into the fence of the Guyana Chronicle’s back gate. He said further that the biker was speeding and when the rider saw the pothole he applied brakes but began skidding and fell off the bike along with the child, who was not wearing a safety helmet.

Jabar said he then observed the girl bleeding from her mouth and the biker stopped a taxi to take the injured child to the hospital for medical attention.

Jabar concluded that if he were speeding, the biker and the child would have been dead because he had to swerve from hitting them after they fell on the roadway and his car ended up crashing into the fence and the vehicle was severely damaged to the front.

Police were summoned to the scene and an investigation was launched. (Michel Outridge)