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82-year-old accident victim succumbs

Apr 11, 2010 News

After six days in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital, Ursula Nelson, 82, succumbed to injuries she sustained as a result of being hit by a minibus.
Six days earlier, the mother of 11, who resided at  34 West La Penitence Housing Scheme (the island) had just disembarked a route 47 minibus at the corners of Croal and Light Streets when she was hit by a minibus.
The driver, Trevor Boston, 30, of 100 Pearl Village, was arrested and placed on bail. The woman’s children are now calling for his re-arrest. “Is either the police arrest he or we will. We hope that we don’t have to because it ain’t gon be nice,” one relative threatened.
Reports are that on that fateful day the octogenarian, who would have celebrated her 83rd birthday in June, disembarked from a route 47 minibus on Croal Street and Light Street and was hit by a South Ruimveldt minibus.
Witnesses report that “(the driver) was in a hurry to get a passenger and he slammed into the woman so hard that it dent the whole side of he minibus and even damage he windscreen too.”
She sustained three broken ribs and a broken pelvis. Her children told this publication that “she was vomiting black blood after the accident and the Doctors said that her injuries were too much for her to recover unless a miracle happens yet the driver was placed on bail”.
The woman, after the accident, was conscious but was placed in the Intensive Care Unit for six days before she died on Friday. The woman’s relatives say that the driver’s parents visited the woman on the day of the accident and they spoke to her son, Ernest Nelson.
He said, “They promised to return and never did and their son, the driver, was arrested and placed on bail.
He is worried as the driver’s father trains traffic ranks and is an ex-police officer. “We have reported mums death to the police and we are waiting for their action”.

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