FAMILY members of Beterverwagting Secondary School student, 14-year-old Leota Eastman, who remains on a life support machine at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), are keeping their fingers crossed and praying for a miracle. The teenage girl was knocked off her bicycle, about mid-afternoon last Saturday, by a ‘Toyota Allion’ motor car, number PNN 2877, while waiting to cross the road.
Her mother, Sharon Scott told the Guyana Chronicle Sunday afternoon, that her daughter was hit by a speeding car, whose driver was too impatient to wait as another was turning out unto the East Coast Demerara Public Road from Company Road, Buxton.
Scott said her child was in a critical condition although doctors indicated she was recovering slowly. The woman said the patient was unable to speak and suffered a broken leg, lost her left side breast and sustained injuries to her skull.
But, up to nightfall Sunday, no police had visited the family’s home, Scott reported. But this publication was informed that the culpable driver was still in detention.
However, relatives of the latter have been visiting and offering words of comfort as well as supporting the family with a few things for the injured girl, who is one of five siblings.
Scott said her daughter was not yet responding normally, yesterday.
Whenever she spoke, it was as a result of pains she was experiencing about her body.
Scott lamented that her daughter has tubes about all parts of her body.