Police are hunting for the driver of a government-plated vehicle, which is reported to have left the scene of an accident in which a mother of six was hit as she crossed the street. An eyewitness believed the woman died instantly.
Solange Amilcar, a 56-year-old resident of the Rock Crusher Road area, became the nation’s twenty-ninth traffic fatality early yesterday morning.
In am incredibly damning reflection of Bahamian society, this is the second hit and run accident, in this tiny country, in just one week.
On Monday, around 8:55pm, Bertrum Scott, 39, was hit and dragged 300 feet by a car on Queen’s Highway in Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera. It is reported that the driver left the scene of that accident.
“It’s a jungle out there”, Police Commissioner Paul Farquharson said last year, speaking about The Bahamas. “And it is a jungle specifically due to the animals that inhabit the islands,” a reporter retorted. Incidents like this bring credence to the reporter’s remark.
Mrs. Amilcar was hit on JFK Drive near Burns House at 6:38am on Friday as she tried to cross the street, according to police reports.
One witness said that Mrs. Amilcar, a Haitian, who worked as a maid in a home on Soldier Road was crossing the street to catch a bus to work when the accident occurred.
The witness said the driver, “a youngish man” who had been travelling in a white car with a red government plate, stopped, got out of the car, made a phone call and then left the scene. Mrs. Amilcar was lying in a pool of blood at the side of the road when the animal who hit her drove away.
Finding the killer should be an easy task if police simply examine all cell phone records for that area and that time.
Mrs. Amilcar was married and the mother of six children. Investigations continue.
