A FAMILY are praying for a beloved son and brother who is in a critical condition after coming off an electric scooter.
Jamie Folkard, 23, is in hospital fighting for his life after a crash in Reevy Road West, near its junction with Bilsdale Grange, in Buttershaw, at 7pm on Wednesday.
Amy Greenwood, 27, of Buttershaw, one of Jamie’s five siblings, has been at her brother’s side in hospital at every possible opportunity alongside her mum, sister, and auntie.
She said: “I hate the thought of him being alone.”
Jamie Folkard, 23, is fighting for his life in hospital after coming off an electric scooter in Buttershaw (Image: UGC) The 27-year-old described her brother as “funny” and said “he will do anything for anyone, he’s always been good at heart.”
Amy added: “It’s just heartbreaking, it’s just unbelievable.
“I can’t register in my head it’s so critical from a scooter and just the thought of him suffering from something that you wouldn’t even expect.
“I could understand from a serious crash from a car or motorbike, I could understand the damage but it won’t register a scooter has done this.
“My mum has not taken it well at all, my mum’s in a state of numb with shock.”
Jamie, who lives in BD2, had been visiting Amy and “making up for lost time” after he was involved in a serious crash at the start of December 2024, where the Mercedes G Wagon he was a passenger in ended up in the grounds of the Paper Hall after being hit by a car trying to evade police.
Amy said Jamie went through the windscreen of the vehicle and had to have his leg reconstructed.
He is still wearing a leg brace and Amy thinks her brother used an e-scooter to go to the shop because he was in pain and it would have been quicker.
It would have taken 45 minutes for him to walk the short distance – “one step at a time then stop and rest” – but he “didn’t tell anyone, because we would have told him he’s stupid”, according to Amy.
She said: “He borrowed it because he was struggling to walk that day with the pain.”
Amy added: “He just went to the shop and just didn’t make it back.
“He was literally like two minutes away from the door.
“That’s what’s made it harder.”
She feels “something has gone wrong” for the crash to have happened and has knocked on doors in the area to try get CCTV to find an explanation.
Amy holding her brother's hand in hospital (Image: UGC) Amy has asked people “not to speculate” on social media about the crash as it is adding to the family’s pain.
She said: “Yeah, he shouldn’t have been on the scooter, we know that, but it was a split-second decision because of the pain he was in.
“But I would tell anyone else just stay away from the scooters because it’s just not worth it.”
Amy added: “It’s scary to think if that can happen pretty much to an adult, what can it do to a child.”
She reiterated that he “wasn’t one of them driving round with a balaclava” and “wasn’t out causing trouble”.
Amy said: “He’d never been on one before, he wasn’t one of the typical ones that flies round on them.”
Jamie is in a coma on a ventilator and has had to have part of his skull removed to relieve pressure.
Amy said doctors told her it’s “one of the most serious brain injuries they’ve seen” and “they don’t know if he’s going to wake up”.
She added: “They can see the damage to his actual brain and skull, but can’t tell what damage he’ll have physically or mentally when he wakes up”.
Jamie was stable on Thursday night but still in a critical condition and Amy says she’s “not slept much at all”.
She said: “Every hour is critical, take every hour as it comes.”
Amy added: “Please pray for him and the nasty comments are heartbreaking to see when we know he wasn’t causing anyone any harm or putting anyone in danger and he’s paying the ultimate price really.”
