By DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
A MALE tourist was struck by a vehicle at the pedestrian crossing on Seahorse Road in Freeport as his family watched in horror.
The traffic accident happened sometime around noon Monday in front of the bus stop on the southbound lane.
When The Tribune arrived at the scene, a crowd of onlookers had gathered in the area watching as the man lay helpless in the road with severe leg injuries. He was unable to move.
The man, his wife and two daughters, were on vacation in Grand Bahama. The family had just left Solomon’s Foodstore with a cart of grocery bags and was in the process of catching a bus when the accident occurred.
According to a witness, the father had carried some of the grocery bags across the street to the bus stop and was going back to fetch the others when he was struck by a dark-coloured Dodge Neon, which was driven by a male driver.
A number of persons assisted the man as he lay on the road. A woman who was either a nurse or some kind of first responder got a first-aid kit from her car and tended to the man, checking his blood pressure and making sure he remained conscious and responsive by talking to him and asking him questions. The man’s wife and two daughters were at his side throughout the ordeal.
Another woman brought a towel on which to rest his head. Jitney driver Steven Lewis said he had stopped at the bus stop to pick up the man and his family when the accident occurred.
“He had brought some grocery bags over to the bus stop,” Mr Lewis recalled.
A male passenger in the Neon claimed that the man never looked before proceeding onto the crosswalk.
Two nurses from the Rand Memorial Hospital were also at the scene and wrapped the man’s ankle.
A police officer on a motorcycle arrived at the scene and met a bystander redirecting traffic on the busy highway directing motorists to the other lane away from the injured man.
The ambulance arrived about 15 minutes later and took the man and his family to the hospital.
Comments
DDK 7 years, 9 months ago
Without knowing what actually happened, I must say that Bahamians and other residents have generally become exceedingly dangerous and inconsiderate drivers, often totally ignoring rules of road law and knowing nothing of road etiquette.
I do hope the visitor makes a complete recovery. What a terrible thing to happen while on holiday.
goodbyebahamas 7 years, 9 months ago
From social decay to infrastructure decay, this is Pindling's PLP legacy, 40 odd years of shoving the country into the F- ing ground as the PLP and their friends profit from the misery of the good Bahamian people; even put up a statue and new airport name as to shove it in your face. Eight more F- ing days and I'm out of here living in beautiful Hawaii with a good Bahamian friend and his family. A God forsaken nation where women are treated worst than the hundreds of abused homeless animals that roam the streets, my Bahamian friend is right, once in Hawaii, the Bahamas will be forgotten.
Alex_Charles 7 years, 9 months ago
Who respects traffic laws in this place? This the best country to have a sports car in because you hardly ever get tickets for speeding or reckless driving, running relight or buses driving on the bloody sidewalks. The police can make a killing on tickets if they made a conscious effort to book people. But screw that, this is the third world!
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