Food delivery driver in shock after being attacked in Cork – The Irish Times

As he recovers from the operation he underwent on Friday to reconstruct the broken bones in his left leg, Brazilian deliveryman Alexandre Athos Pinheiro Teixeira, 23, is still in shock after chased and then rammed the way he worked Cork on Halloween night.

Shortly before midnight, Mr Teixeira, who is also studying English in Ireland, had just completed a delivery on his motorbike in the Blackrock area of ​​the city when he saw a gray car stop and reverse towards him.

“I thought someone had gone the wrong way or something, that’s normal. I swerved to avoid the car,” he says.

However, moments later, when he tried to catch up, he was suddenly attacked by a man “wearing a mask and a bandana. The back door of the car opened and a person jumped out of the car towards me.

“I thought, ‘Wow, I’m going to get robbed,’ or something like that, but I still didn’t know if it was a Halloween prank. And I sped up. Then the person tried to pull me, but it didn’t work. I sped up and took off.

“I thought they would leave me alone at that moment, but they didn’t. My bike is not very fast and their car was much faster. So when they overtook me, I braked and turned back to try to lose them.”

To try to escape, Mr Teixeira entered a residential area but was caught when he tried to make a sudden turn.

“They knocked me off the bike with the car, but at that time I was not injured yet. I was doing well,” he says.

The same assailant who had previously jumped from the car re-emerged from the vehicle. “I started screaming, ‘Why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this to me?’”

The man started throwing punches towards Mr Teixeira, who tried to hit him back. “I managed to punch him and he got back in the car,” he says.

He was then caught off guard for a moment and the driver accelerated towards him. “This part is kind of a blur in my mind, but I remember my leg cracking. I think it got between the mudguard (mudguard) of my motorcycle and the bumper of the car,” Mr Teixeira said.

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The car’s occupants left the scene, leaving behind their victim, who was trapped by his engine with serious compound fractures to his left leg.

“If I had landed on my hip,” he says, “I could have been in a wheelchair. If I had landed on my head near the car, I could have died. They would have killed me.”

Mr Teixeira told The Irish Times he managed to call an emergency group of delivery people and sent them his location. “They came to where I was and helped me,” he says. Residents also heard the collision and found the victim in severe pain on the street and called the emergency services.

He was taken to Cork University Hospital where he underwent surgery. “I think it will take a few months of recovery,” he says.

Mr Teixeira says he saw a man driving the car, a female front passenger and another man in the back. They were all in their 20s, he believes.

Gardaí found a stolen Skoda Kodiaq – believed to have been used to ram Mr Teixeira – burnt out in a field in Carrignavar, 12km north of Cork city, early on Friday morning and have begun a technical examination of the vehicle.

It is believed the same car rammed a Garda vehicle at around 2am on the Old Mallow Road on the north side of the city, about 5 miles from the scene of the collision. Two gardaí were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

Gardaí believe the occupant or occupants of the stolen Skoda Kodiaq were met by a driver in another car.

Gardaí have asked witnesses or anyone with footage of either incident to contact them at Anglesea Street station on 021 452 000 or on the Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.