A man is now dead after he was struck down by a speeding car on his way home.
Richard Watson, 30, of Lot 33 Airy Hall, Mahaicony was about 10 houses away from his home, making his way across the road when he was struck down.
“Well… I am not well and every Monday and Friday I go take treatment from Mercy Hospital. …As soon as I come home and I dropped in the hammock, my sister-in-law called me and tell me to come down the road because my son get knock down,” Watson’s mother Bernadette Watson,
broke down into tears as she explained to Stabroek News yesterday. She said that after she received the news that her son was knocked down she left the house without telling anyone and went to the scene where she saw the lifeless body of her son lying in the corner of the road.
“When I reach there my son was on the corner. My son was dead in the corner; he was helpless. His hand was broken and fold up and all of that,” the woman said. Watson’s body was subsequently rushed to the Mahaicony Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival
His mother said what she heard from eyewitnesses was that car, PTT 6818, was speeding along the roadway going east when it tried to overtake another vehicle. “It had to be going real fast, fast cause it was a corner too.
There was a turn there and the car tried to overtake another vehicle and was driving in the right lane and he [Watson] was crossing the road to come over to the side where our house is and it just slam into he,” the teary woman said.
“The impact sent him 123 feet. How fast he had to be going to hit my son so hard to pitch he so far?” she questioned. The grieving mother said that while they were at the police station the driver appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. She said that while the police were giving him the breathalyzer test he admitted that he drank a Guinness. “He declared that he was wrong and he was sorry but that doesn’t change anything. One of the bus drivers [who was driving] behind the vehicle said that he saw how speed the man was going and he was blowing on him to stop but he didn’t,” she said mournfully.
The driver is in police custody and is expected to be charged on Wednesday.
