FRENCH QUARTER:--- A well known youth from French Quarter identified as Jahkiem Carty aka Jackcocoand one of his friends identified as Johnathan Jeffers were involved in a very serious motorcycle accident in the vicinity of Delta Petroleum gas station in French Quarter on Saturday afternoon.
Eyewitnesses said that a pick-up truck left Brooks' Car Wash and was entering Delta Petroleum when the youth who was riding a green motorcycle at high speed crashed into the pick-up truck. The accident occurred shortly after 5pm Saturday afternoon. The rider of the motorcycle was badly injured when ambulance personnel arrived on the scene and he was lying at the entrance of Delta Petroleum. Bystanders at the scene were not at all hopeful as they witnessed ambulance personnel working on the victim to revive him. "They shocked him three times before they got a heartbeat." SMN News reporter was on the scene when the victim was taken by ambulance to the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital. Shortly after arriving at LCF Hospital, one of the victim identified as Jonathan Jeffers of St. Kitts died shortly after he was transported to the Louis Contant Fleming Hospital. Relatives of the second victim Jahkiem Carty told SMN News on Saturday that the victim that passed away was Carty, however, on Monday morning the relative who spoke to SMN News on Saturday said he too was misinformed and that his nephew is recuperating at the L. C Fleming Hospital. "They wanted to send him to Guadeloupe on Sunday because one of his kidneys is badly damaged but the doctors changed their minds and decided to continue treatment on St. Martin." The relative of Carty said he does not even know the other young man who was on the motorcycle at the time of the accident. SMN News apologises to the Carty family for the misinformation that was provided to us.
Captain of the Gendarmerie Slyvian Joualt said that the victim passed away as a result of his injuries. Joualt further explained that the victim was riding a motorcross without a helmet. "It is illegal to ride motorcross motorcycles on the public roads. Those bikes are not to be used on public roads but on backlands."
