At least five children were injured in separate road accidents on Monday and had to be admitted to wards at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

One of them, eleven-year-old Ebony Grinn, of Lamaha Springs, and student of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School was struck down on a pedestrian crossing in front of her school, reportedly by a male teacher on a motor cycle, attempting to overtake a car.

She suffered injuries to the head, face, and right leg.

Witnesses related that Grinn had just stepped out of her school yard to purchase a snack from a snack lady outside the compound when the teacher, said to be from a nearby institution, drove by and attempted to overtake a car. In doing so, he struck the child down, but was quickly surrounded by her school mates who summoned the police.

In another accident twelve-year-old Rehanna Harry of Soesdyke Primary School, East Bank Demerara was struck down while attempting to cross the Craig Public Road. She is suspected to be suffering from a fractured arm.

Meanwhile, 14-year-old-Rolex Austin and Andre Nowrang, 16, were also admitted to the institution nursing injuries to the head, chest and legs after being struck down by a molasses truck in the vicinity of the Sophia Exhibition Site, also on Monday.

The lads, who are both from Sophia, were reportedly riding a pedal cycle out of Sophia, on an errand to pick up a neighbour’s child at Campbellville Primary School when they were struck down by the truck. Witnesses said they where taken to hospital by a ‘white man’ who witnessed the accident.

Nowrang who was hit in his chest and suffered injury to the left leg was in a stable condition when seen by this newspaper, but Austin who was hit in the chest and head, and shoulder, remained unconscious.