Deliveryman flees after hitting down 4-year-old, mother

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force are currently searching for a deliveryman who struck down a four-year-old girl and her mother in the vicinity of Thomas and Middle Streets, Georgetown on Thursday.

The child’s mother, Bibi Toonoo, a nurse at the Georgetown Public Hospital, told Guyana Times that she had just collected her daughter from school, and was taking her to the Church’s Chicken outlet to get some food.
She said that while in the vicinity of Thomas Street, she and her daughter attempted to cross the road, and a bus and other vehicles stopped to allow them to do so, but when they were almost over the road, an Haojue motorcycle bearing licence plate number CL 2380 crashed into them both.
“We were almost in the grass, and he was coming with one speed. When he realised that the motorbike was going to crash into us, he jumped off, and the bike rode into us. I was holding my daughter’s hand, and I pulled her to me, but the bike still roll into us, hit my daughter down, and the bike fell on her back”, she detailed.
Toono said she began to panic as her daughter started crying out for pain. She said she began demanding that her daughter be taken to the hospital.
“My daughter kept crying out for her back, and he trying to tell me nothing is wrong with my daughter. Is after I started behaving bad (that) he decided to go with me to Balwant Singh Hospital.
While there, they told me that they have to do an x-ray to see what is happening with my daughter, and it will cost $6,000…. I took his number and a photo of the bike number. While (I was) looking after my daughter, he went away,” she said.
Toono said she subsequently reported the incident at the Alberttown Police Station, and also tried to make contact with the deliveryman on the number he had given to her, but she was told it was the wrong number.
She added that she was unable to get the man’s name and a photo of him, since she was panicking during the time her daughter was crying out for pain. However, she recalled that the man was carrying a ‘delivery’ bag on his bike, as though he was working with a restaurant.
The child was treated and sent home on Friday with instructions that she must be monitored. Investigation of this accident is still ongoing.
Only two Thursdays ago, a 12-year-old schoolgirl was struck down on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) highway by a minibus while she was attempting to use the pedestrian crossing in front of the Supply Primary School. She sustained a fractured leg and several bruises on her body.
According to that child’s family, the bus that struck her was being driven by a member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF). The driver was later arrested, but was released on $60,000 bail.