KISHMAR ALLEYNE wants the unidentified driver of the vehicle which hit him three months ago to own up.
The twenty-year-old, who lives at Passage Road, St Michael, suffered a broken left foot, broken right leg and broken ribs and he might never fully recover from these serious injuries.
Alleyne cannot remember much about the accident because he was knocked unconscious, neither can he remember the date or the day it occurred but he recalled that it happened around 3 p.m. one evening, while he was riding a motorcycle along Farm Road, St George.
“I was going around a corner when something just come down the road hard behind me and bruggadung!, it hit me and knock me out the same time,” he recounted.
He said when he regained consciousness his brother and a truck driver were standing over him.
“I couldn’t move and I was in a lot of pain but I tried not to panic,” he said.
His brother Dario recounted how he received a telephone call from a friend telling him that Kishmar had been involved in an accident. It took him about 20 minutes to get to the scene and when he arrived the only person there was a truck driver.
Hit from behind
“He told me that a vehicle hit my brother from behind and that a man got out of the vehicle, took up my brother’s bag and looked in it, took out his cellphone and memory card, broke the phone in half and got back in the vehicle and drove away. The truck driver told me that he called the police and an ambulance.
However, Dario said he was so focused on his brother that he could not remember what type of vehicle the truck driver told him it was and he never thought to get the man’s name and number. “All I?remember is that he told me two people were in the vehicle,” Dario reported.
Alleyne said he spent six weeks at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where a long piece of steel was inserted in his right leg, six pins were placed in his left foot and he was given extensive treatment for his broken ribs.
However, he said he found it strange that one day a man who identified himself as a police officer visited him on the ward and questioned him about the phone which the hit-and-run culprit had taken from his bag.
Sister’s phone
“This police officer came to the hospital and asked me if I remember anything and if I see who hit me. I told him no. I was using my sister’s phone and he look at the phone and ask me if my phone gone back working.
“I?said no. He said okay and tell me he coming back. I?have never seen him again. I want to know how he know that my phone was not working,” Alleyne said.
He added that he was informed that his motorcycle was at the Glebe police station but up to this day no officer had come to take a statement from him.
“Right now I can’t do anything I can’t even help myself. I have to depend on my family to help me. If I walk too long my foot will swell,” said Alleyne, who also complained that he might no longer be able to work with the construction firm where he was employed as a labourer.
He also has to continue follow up treatment at the hospital.
Alleyne is asking the truck driver who was on the scene to contact him since he was the only person to witness the accident. But he also wants the driver who hit him to do the right thing and come forward.
