Accident victim: ‘Did driver see me?’

“I would want to ask him if he had seen me when he bounced me!” said 11-year-old Jovelle Caesar, referring to the driver of the car which knocked him down Carnival Tuesday, causing multiple and serious injuries to Jovelle, who has been warded at the Surgical Ward, Children’s Ward at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex for the past three months. “I want to know  if he saw me and why he did it, and to know if he felt me under the car,” Caesar told Newsday yesterday, adding that if he had a chance to speak to his alleged assailant, he would ask him how he felt when he had bounced him.

Speaking from his hospital bed, he continued: “I remember that night, when I saw the red car and I got hit, I pitched forward, then the car rolled over me. It was dim and I bounced my head on the road, then I was rolling and I didn’t know anymore.” Caesar was dragged from Green Corner, St Vincent Street and Park Street, to Mother Nature’s on Abercromby Street. It is not certain when Caesar would return home. He is still hospitalised after suffering two broken legs, a broken and fractured arm, and a collapsed lung.  He is now able to move his hands and some of the bandages have come off. Both his legs and two elbows are  in casts as well as  his stomach. Yesterday, Caesar had to undergo surgery to see if his wounds were infected.

During the day he spends his time watching television or playing games on his mother’s cell phone. Caesar, who says he is an aspiring attorney told Newsday he was glad to be alive, but that he is missing his family and his classes at Pt Cumana RC School. “They used to treat me good,” he said. “I miss being home.” Janice Joseph, Caesar’s mother, is still hoping the family would receive justice and the culprit would  hand himself over to the police. Attempts to contact Sgt Le Cointe, investigating officer at the Central Police Station, proved futile.