An eight-year-old student of Crabwood Creek (CWC) Primary was on Tuesday afternoon killed after being hit by a speeding car which fled the scene after the impact. The boy was reportedly on his way home after his father had safely crossed him across the road. Dead is Sahil Naipaul of CWC.
According to the police, the crash involved motor car PAK 6593 driven by A 21-year-old man also of CWC. Reports are that after being contacted, the police quickly responded and headed in the direction of Moleson Creek in pursuit of the driver who had gone into a back street and was heading in the opposite direction when he was apprehended. According the child’s mother Davi Ramkissoon, she was at home cooking when her son left home along with his stepfather to go to the shop.

She said after leaving the shop his stepfather took him across the road for him to make his way home and then proceeded to the village office to attend to some business. “My neighbour called me and told me that my son is in the trench that he get accident. I put down everything and I came out on the road and I see my son in the trench,” the mother of five said while noting that three years ago she lost her eldest son who was 10-years-old.
She said she pulled her son’s lifeless body, which was submerged.
“Mud was in his mouth, his teeth and all his foot break up, his hand break and he went in the trench.”
Ramkissoon said when she arrived at the scene and the car was not there, but she was told that after the impact which saw her son flying in the air for several feet before landing in the trench, the car proceeded in the direction towards Molson Creek. “I don’t want no compensation. I want for him to go to jail. I don’t want him to help to bury or anything we will do everything,” she said.
“My son bring forth space in school. He was doing very good in school. He’s not a bad boy. He is a willing child. Anybody asked him to do anything he is willing. Even in the darkest night you called for him to do something he is willing and he like all his brothers.”

The 24-year-old mother said she trusted her son to use the road, noting that he would run errands using the family’s bicycle or even their electric bike to do so. In fact, she noted that on two occasions and Tuesday morning he was sent to the shop and when they are riding the family’s bicycle.
Meanwhile, police said that the driver is in custody as the investigation continues.