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It was a quiet September morning as Omar Robinson made his way to Roses Valley Primary School near Balaclava, St Elizabeth. Suddenly, out of nowhere "a truck man lick me down over the banking", Robinson, now 32, recalls of the tragic incident that robbed him of his right leg. "I was seven when it happened. Dem couldn't save the leg, dem had to cut it off," Robinson tells the Jamaica Observer in an interview. The accident left Robinson requiring a prosthetic leg that would need several changes as he grew into adulthood. Nowadays, he can be seen pushing a handcart from which he sells juice along the busy streets of Spanish Town, St Catherine. Vending was one of the few choices open to him to make a livelihood after the loss of his leg.
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