Elderly Man Knocked Down in Corozal Town
Robert Carter
A family from Corozal Town is hoping for the best for their elderly loved one who was knocked down on Thursday afternoon in that municipality. Ninety-three-year old Robert Carter is unconscious at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he suffered head injuries in the accident. Carter, reports say, was trying to make his way across Fifth Avenue when a vehicle knocked him down. It’s a location where many accidents have happened before, according to Carter’s son, Anthony Carter. He is praying for his dad’s recovery, but making an appeal for some traffic measure be put in place at the location he calls a blind curve.
Anthony Carter
Anthony Carter, Son of Accident Victim
“Yesterday about one, 10 minutes past one, I was at my little booth that I sell herbs and I heard a bang. When I go and peep out, I saw the patient on the ground with the vehicle over him, well, not completely over him, but partially over him. When I noticed it’s my father, so I tried to retrieve him and pull him out. But we understand that we can’t move the patient, but then people insisted that we could, that the vehicle should not move, only the patient could move. Well, good thing the police came in time and they assisted us in taking the patient to the hospital. We had a little bit of delay with the ambulance, but we did okay with the police assistance.”
Marion Ali
“So how is he doing now? Where is he?”
Anthony Carter
“Well, he’s in, I think stable condition, and kind of critical at the same time, too. I think he has to do, at Karl H, here at Karl Heusner [Memorial Hospital.], he has to take some more scans and see what’s wrong with him. Many people get hit down at that same place there, because you have a blind curve, a monument at the corner of the lane. So I think what we need there is a little stoplight at least, make the vehicle have a waiting time – or a speed bump. I think the driver, up to what I understand the people saw that the driver came to the stop, looked on the right hand side, nobody was coming, but the patient was about to cross, he stopped one side, and then the driver looked on the left hand side afterwards. And since nothing was coming on the right nor the left, by the time she looked back to the right to take off, it’s because the pedestrian was already in the way, so then she hit him.”
Marion Ali
“So your father suffered, what, head injuries”
Anthony Carter
“Yes, head injury. It’s a trauma, very dangerous. He bled you know, his head is full of blood, so he had to take…”
Marion Ali
“So he’s not talking?”
Anthony Carter
“No, he’s in a coma right now.”
Marion Ali
“What are the doctors saying?”
Anthony Carter
“They say he has to take another scan and again about in four days time. They drained him last night, but they still have to take another scan to see how much more they have to do on him again.”
