Accident victim?s family asks driver to take responsibility

A Cayo woman injured in a road accident clings to life tonight at the K.H.M.H. And while her family maintains an anxious vigil they tell News Five that the man responsible for her injuries–a friend of the victim–has still not come forward to explain what happened.

Myrsa Morales, Sister of accident Victim
?Since the accident, he no come around none at all none at all. He noh come none at all, none at all. We can?t vex with him, all we want is for him to come, at least be a responsible person, because mi di drive, he mi deh underneath alcohol.?

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
On Sunday, twenty year old Marleni Montero regained consciousness after being in a coma for four days, but she remains in a very critical condition. Last Wednesday she received head and body injuries after the vehicle in which she was travelling overturned between miles sixty-nine and seventy on the Western Highway. According to Myrsa Morales, her sister was getting a ride home from work with driver Police Constable Sherward Lawrence when Lawrence lost control of the car. Lawrence has since told police that he drifted too far near the edge of the road after the driver of an oncoming vehicle blinded him with its high beam lights. Today Morales not only disputes the report, but says the family holds Lawrence responsible for her sister?s injuries. Morales says an eyewitness, who helped their sister from the wreck, told them that at the time of the accident P.C. Lawrence was overtaking other vehicles on a blind curve. Now they are asking him to do the right thing.

Myrsa Morales
?Why? Because he know that whenever you are driving, you should not drink. And that is a responsibility that he when he mi di drink he know he got somebody with him and then he know that when you deh on the curve, you can?t overtake. All what we want dah fi mek he come and just apologize and fi mek he be responsible for some ah the bills.?

Today, Montero was transferred from the K.H.M.H. post-operative ward to the Intensive Care Unit at the private ward.

Myrsa Morales
?At this moment the doctor say she is…up to right now. Well her two legs her kidneys are not working too, right.?

The family are appealing to the public for blood donations.

Myrsa Morales
?In her lungs the swelling is down a little bit. That?s all I know up to right now. Well, fi she two legs them bruk right up. I think he wah need?she noh got heel on her foot and right by her stomach she get a surgery because she mi di bleed from inside. And her kidneys noh di work too, right.?

The family is appealing to the public for blood donations.

Myrsa Morales
?She needs some blood. She need about fifteen bag of blood right now and we also asking too with any kind of thing if they would want to help because the bill will be?it will be too expansive.?

P.C. Lawrence has not been charged in connection with the incident. Police say they are still investigating.

Lawrence received only minor injuries in the accident. Late word from the hospital is that Marleni Montero’s prognosis is not looking good. If you would like to help please contact the family at cell phone number 601-5997. And in related news there is another patient in the K.H.M.H. who needs your assistance. Kathleen Gentle is bleeding profusely from her stomach, but family members tell us there is no type O negative blood at the blood bank. If you are an O negative donor please call Darlene Gentle at 620-9576.