{"id":239482,"date":"2002-08-19T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2002-08-19T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=239482"},"modified":"2021-02-14T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T06:31:14","slug":"british-toddler-in-critical-condition-after-being-hit-by-boat-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2002\/08\/british-toddler-in-critical-condition-after-being-hit-by-boat-in-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"British Toddler in Critical Condition After Being Hit by Boat in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASSAU, Bahamas &#8211; A 2-year-old boy from London was in critical condition after a motorboat ran aground on a beach and struck him on the head, authorities said Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe accident occurred Thursday afternoon near the Atlantis Paradise Island resort, where the boy and his family were staying. <\/p>\n<p>\nPolice said the boat&#8217;s operator ran the vessel aground on full throttle, hitting Paul Gallagher in the head. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe boy was rushed to Doctors Hospital in Nassau, where he was listed in extremely critical condition, said Kay Chriswell, head nurse in the intensive care unit. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It appears to be an accident,&#8221; Assistant Commissioner of Police Reginald Ferguson said. Police are investigating. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe Atlantis Paradise Island resort issued a statement saying its staff was praying for the boy and his family. <\/p>\n<p>\nBoat operator James Bain, who was not employed by the resort, was treated for minor injuries. Authorities said he had come to the beach pulling his inflated &#8220;banana boat,&#8221; which he used to give rides to tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASSAU, Bahamas &#8211; A 2-year-old boy from London was in critical condition after a motorboat ran aground on a beach and struck him on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240485,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482\/revisions\/240485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}