A 17-year-old lad was on Wednesday admitted a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after being involved in an accident along the Perseverance Public Road on the Essequibo Coast in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).
Reports are that at about 09:30h on Wednesday, Shane Lall of Cullen Village, Essequibo Coast was driving a motorcycle on the western driving lane of the public road at Perseverance, proceeding north at a fast rate when he lost control of the motorcycle and it crashed into a motorcar and burst into flames.
“He went going home with speed, and he couldn’t control the bike and he run into the car in front he. He really deh bad, the doctor carry he away at Georgetown. They give him 50/50 chance to survive,” a relative of the injured teen told this publication.
The teenager was treated at the Suddie Public Hospital after the accident, but because of the extent of his injuries, he was transferred to the ICU at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Investigations are ongoing. (G14)