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.<\/p>\n
Solange Amilcar, a 56-year-old resident of the Rock Crusher Road area, became the nation’s twenty-ninth traffic fatality early yesterday morning.<\/p>\n
In am incredibly damning reflection of Bahamian society, this is the second hit and run accident, in this tiny country, in just one week.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Finding the killer should be an easy task if police simply examine all cell phone records for that area and that time.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Amilcar was married and the mother of six children. Investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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