Edition 84
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Friday, September 28, 2012
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HIT-AND-RUN BRIT MAIMED OUR SON
By DONNA GEE LOCAL police have launched a manhunt to catch a hit-and-run driver who left a schoolboy crippled after knocking him off his BMX bike. The callous motorist – believed to be British stopped briefly as 13-yearold Jordan Formosa lay on the road beside his damaged cycle. Then he drove off, leaving his victim with a triple fracture of the left leg. Jordan’s injuries were so severe that he required twoand-a-half hours of surgery and a blood transfusion – and had 40 metal staples inserted in his mutilated limb. The incident occurred at the Carrer de Berna /Carrer de Roma crossroads in La Marina at around 5.20pm on September 17. Jordan’s mother Alison told The Courier: ‘’The police are mad about this. They can’t believe a human being could leave a child in the road without helping him. Regardless of whether he was speeding/drunk/drugs or just plain scared, he still should have stopped.’’ Alison and John Formosa, who came to Spain from their native Cardiff eight years ago, now run the News
Fury over ‘coward’ driver who crippled BMX boy, 13
Express newsagents in Punta Prima. But the only news they want to hear right now is that police have arrested the ‘’coward’’, as they describe the person
responsible for Jordan’s injuries. Jordan, who has a 12year-old sister, Courtney, will spend the next eight weeks in bed and is likely to be off
school for almost three months. Mum Alison told me: “We had been to collect the yearly schoolbooks and Jordan asked if he could go and
meet his friends at the park on his BMX, which we had put into the minibus. “Our last words were, ‘OK son but just be careful’. Jordan has been riding a bike safely on the roads in the urbanisation for four years and he is very confident and knows road safety. “Two minutes had passed when the mobile rang, it was Jordan saying that he had been hit off his bike and thought he had broken his leg. “He said the car and driver had just driven off and left him in the middle of the road.
“Two eye witnesses saw the accident happen but could not get the registration number of the car. But we do have a description of the driver, who we think was British. “He is in his late 40s or early 50s, white, about 5ft 9in, with a bald head and of stocky build. “The car is believed to be dark purple or blue - possibly a Citroen, which now has damage to it from the hit and run.’’ There were witnesses to the incident and Alison went on: “Jenny and Ron from Cristal Pools in La Marina were walking their dogs down Carrer de Berna and my son passed them on the bike. “Seconds later they heard a loud bang and saw Jordan’s legs flying in the air. He tried to stand up and his leg buckled underneath him so he dragged himself to the kerb. “The motorist who hit him must have been driving at excessive speed as Jordan hit the bonnet, windscreen and then the roof before eventually landing on the ground. The driver stopped, reversed his car, got out and
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