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Truck crushes teen
Nineteen-year-old Shawn Austin, of 6 Drysdale Street, Charlestown, is the country’s latest road fatality. The teen was reportedly run over by a Canter truck while trying to disembark from the vehicle. The incident occurred in Broad Street, Charlestown, yesterday morning.
Shawn Austin
Police reports indicate that the teen was coming from the National Stadium, at around 02:45hrs, when the accident occurred. The Canter driver has been identified as Lancelot Cox.
According to the teen’s aunt, Gail Ann Bascom, she was made aware of the accident by Austin’s friends who were with him at the time.
She explained that Austin left his home at around 21:00 hrs on Saturday evening to attend a show at the stadium. She said that, after the show was finished he probably encountered difficulties with transportation, and may have gotten a drop from the man.
The distraught woman said that, according to his friends, he was jumping off the vehicle when his “jeans” became entangled. She further told this newspaper that after Austin’s jeans got hooked to the truck, he fell onto the road and the truck ran over him.
The woman explained that her nephew was attempting to jump off of the truck in Board Street, probably to avoid going to town. Bascom said that his friends were telling “the driver to stop, somebody coming off,” but he apparently didn’t hear. The woman said that the driver only stopped when Austin was already under the truck, but by that time it was too late.
He was immediately taken to the Georgetown Hospital nursing massive head and chest injures, and died while receiving treatment.
According to police sources, the driver of the Canter truck was subsequently placed on $20,000 station bail. Investigations are continuing.
Shawn Austin leaves to mourn his mother, two sisters, and an aunt, among other relatives.
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