Parents in Bahrain are being urged to think twice before purchasing electric motorcycles for their children following an accident that resulted in a schoolboy suffering a horrific facial injury.
The popular machines may be on the Christmas wish list for many expatriate youngsters but one slip or a slight lack of attention could prove calamitous.
Seven-year-old Sebastian Stöhe was riding around his compound in Barbar, wearing a helmet, when he crashed. The fall left his jawbone exposed and his face covered in blood.
Speaking to the GDN, his mother Carina, who is from the UK but has spent her entire life in Bahrain, said that she was attending to household chores when she suddenly heard him scream.
“Once I saw the condition he was in I immediately ripped off his helmet and T-shirt, and tried to stop the bleeding,” said the 41-year-old mother-of-two.
“I took him inside and called the National Ambulance Service and they were wonderfully supportive.
“They guided me every step of the way and I decided to drive him to a nearby hospital where medics managed to stabilise him. An ambulance then took us to Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC).”
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