80-y-o man killed in hit-and-run crash
Published:Saturday | July 28, 2018 | 5:43 PM
An 80-year-old man died today after he was hit by a motor vehicle that did not stop.
He is Uriah, Williams, a pensioner of Burnt Savannah, in Westmoreland.
The police say Williams died from injuries he received in a motor vehicle crash along the Greenfield main road in the parish.
The Frome Police report that the elderly man was walking along the roadway shortly after midnight when he was hit by a motor vehicle.
The driver did not stop.
Williams was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
His death brings to 28 the number of elderly persons killed on the nation’s roadways since the start of the year.
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