Jackson Singh (32) crushed by stolen SUV in Co Carlow — wife unsure when he will walk again
Jackson Singh suffered a shattered pelvis and brain bleed after being struck by a stolen Ford Ranger in Graiguecullen. His wife says he remains hospitalised and in pain.
Carlow man critically injured by stolen Ford Ranger remains in hospital months after attack
The wife of a man who was struck and driven over by a stolen SUV in Co Carlow in July says she does not know when her husband will walk again, the Irish Times reports.
Jackson Singh (32), who commuted daily from Carlow to Dublin for work, was travelling on a motorcycle at a set of traffic lights in Graiguecullen on the morning of 8 July when a Ford Ranger mounted him. The vehicle had been stolen in Rathcoole, Co Dublin, hours before the incident.
Singh sustained a brain bleed, a shattered pelvis, lacerations to his liver, broken ribs and facial fractures. He remains in hospital in Cork.
Four teenagers were arrested in connection with the incident. Among them was Jack Kennedy, one of five teenagers who died earlier this month after a vehicle travelled in the wrong direction on the M9 in Co Kildare. Alex McCarthy (16), also among those killed in the M9 crash, had likewise been questioned by gardaí in relation to the Graiguecullen incident.
His wife, Hari Priya Kuber Singh, told RTÉ's Prime Time that she found her husband "lifeless" when she arrived at the hospital. She described his survival as a "blessing".
"The minute I saw him, he was just shattered," she said.
Singh said she "felt so bad" upon learning of the M9 crash deaths. "We all do things when we are immature," she said. "What they did was wrong, but nobody deserves to die in that way."
Her husband is "doing okay" but remains in pain "most of the time" and has lost both his sense of smell and taste. Despite the severity of his injuries, she said the only thing he kept asking about was their nine-month-old daughter.
"I genuinely don't know when I'm going to take him back home, what's going to happen to us. I don't know when he can walk," she said.
Source: Irish Times