How often do we see a child/ children playing just outside his/her house in our neighbourhood without supervision and without a care in the world? Yes, traffic is now minimised because of our Gated and Guarded scheme....
BUT it doesn't mean that parents should let their guard down with regards to their children's safety!!!!Please read the following news article extracted from The Star ( July 5th, 2010 )SUBANG JAYA: A little boy is fighting for his life after suffering serious head and body injuries in an accident involving a speeding van outside his home in Saujana Puchong, near here, on Saturday night.
Danial Gabrial Abdullah, who will turn five in December, is believed to have been flung more than 10m due to the impact.
Worse still, the van allegedly rolled over his leg as the child laid motionless
Doctors at the Serdang Hospital later told his mother Nor Saliha Mining, 25, that Danial suffered a cracked skull, internal brain haemorrhage and a broken ankle.
Part of his scalp was scraped off and his left ear was torn off. He has been warded at the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Nor Saliha lodged a police report at the Bukit Puchong police station where she learnt that the driver had also lodged a report at the station.
Her husband technician Mohd Brian Gabrial, 34, who was at work at the time of the incident, rushed home when he heard about it.
“When I arrived, my wife had accompanied Daniel to the hospital. I was shaking on seeing the pool of blood on the road,” he said.
Recalling the horrifying incident, Nor Saliha said it happened at around 9pm. She had told Danial not to go out of the house while she looked for the cable to a laptop for him to play with.
“Despite my warning, he went out.
“Then, he opened the gate and stepped out to the road,” she sobbed, alleging that the speeding vehicle, with the words Polis Bantuan on its sides, slammed into her child.
She claimed that the van did not stop and as it continued to drive away, it also rolled over Gabrial’s leg.
The child’s screams drew the attention of the neighbours. Nor Saliha said she shouted at the driver who briefly stopped and stepped out of the vehicle.
The driver, however, did not stop to look at the boy. He got back into the van and drove off.
Nor Saliha said that the driver returned about five minutes later, accompanied by another person.
She said: “The driver’s friend took a look at my son but as he too tried to move away, my neighbours stopped him. The van driver sped off.”
The housewife and mother of two other children – a two-year-old boy and a 10-month-old girl – said her neighbours helped to rush Danial to hospital.
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