Cherisse Halsall has the story.

It was a daring escape from an oncoming collision that happened right on the sidewalk.

It left Toirike Perteau on the ground of a clothing and shoe store gasping for breath and relieved to have avoided being crushed.

We spoke to him today at his grandmother's home.

Toirike Peteau, Accident Victim
"I was walking on the sidewalk and then the car just came."

Cherisse Halsall:
"What did you do?"

Toirike Peteau, Accident Victim
"Then I ran into the shop. I had run into the store where sells shoes. Two ladies came and picked me up and then they put me in a chair to sit down."

Cherisse Halsall:
"So when they picked you up is that because you had fallen?"

Toirike Peteau, Accident Victim
"Nods…"

Cherisse Halsall:
"Where did you fall?"

Toirike Peteau, Accident Victim
"In the store on the ground."

Cherisse Halsall:
"Did you get hurt anywhere?"

Toirike Peteau, Accident Victim
"Yeah I got hurt by here, my hip."

Cherisse Halsall:
"Does it still hurt now?"

Toirike Peteau, Accident Victim
"Yes, ma'am."

Ernesto Gonzalez uses Cemtery Road as his route home every day. We caught him there at the same hour today and he told us what he saw in the moments after Toirike dodged the dollar van.

Ernesto Gonzalez, Resident Belize City
"I had come to deliver the work for Ms Alma and certainly, I saw the accident, the van ran up into the side of the wall and the valves noh, the faucets so I said to myself the vehicle always shoots through here but when you don't have a chance for the people on the side walking and the vehicle isn't parked correctly, he tried to take in from inside the vehicle that you don't want to take in and I think he just slammed into the wall."

"Maybe he couldn't get control of knocking somebody or into that vehicle make him swing into the wall and bam bam he went and wrecked up that there."

Cherisse Halsall:
"Is this a dollar van?"

Ernesto Gonzalez, Resident Belize City
"Mhmm dollar van."

But he could have ended Toirike Perteau's life,

Glenda St. Claire, Grandmother Of Accident Victim
"I was cooking at the same time when my daughter hailed me upstairs to the window I didn't even want to look because I always tell them before you tell me anything just don't frighten me and things check but I didn't look upstairs so I said what happened and she said Toirike got knocked own."

"Oh my God I felt like I just dropped right through, I ran from here to the lane and from there I couldn't walk anymore Miss."

Cherisse Halsall:
"But when they said to your Toirike got knocked down did you fear the worst?"

Glenda St. Claire, Grandmother Of Accident Victim
"Yes, yes I thought something bad bad bad had happened to him that is one thing."

And that fear ran deeper than even a grandmother's love because Glenda St. Claire was entrusted with the care and safety of her daughter's children when she passed away from an illness several years ago.

Glenda St. Claire, Grandmother Of Accident Victim
"It was really hard, I really felt it, I said, what? No man I promised my daughter I would take care of them."

Luckily for and for her quick-thinking grandson she's been able to keep that promise and she's been back and forth between clinics and hospitals since yesterday trying to make sure that everything is good with Toirike's health.

And what does Glenda St. Claire think of the viral video of the other accident victim, seen here in a pink shirt. He somehow survived the head on collision, enough to take his revenge on the man that ran into both him and her grandson. Street justice in plain view of the police. This grandmother didn't seem so moved by that, she's just happy Toirike is safe:

Cherisse Halsall:
"He beat the driver afterwards, how do you feel about that?"

Glenda St. Claire, Grandmother Of Accident Victim
"I feel so happy and right away I told God thanks very much for taking care of this child and that he didn't go any further. I thanked God right there and then and then I told God thank you very much for the blessing,"

Up to today the driver of the dollar van was detained at precinct one pending charges.

Glenda St. Claire says that she's yet to receive conclusive answers on Toirike's condition from the hospital despite the fact that she returned there today for X-Rays.

After our interview, she told us that she met the angry crash victim at the police station and he told her that he won't be pressing charges on the driver. Some say that because he was not walking on the sidewalk, he might not have had much of a case.