Please come forward

THE wife of Orson Ammon, a 73-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Thursday morning last week, yesterday pleaded with the person who hit him to come forward.

“Its not like you wilfully bounced this person, it was an accident,” lamented the widow, “But how could they leave a person on the side of the road like that?

“The least they could do is call the police and let them know what happened.

“People would pick up a stray dog if they hit one. At the end of the day, I will have to forgive them like anyone else, but the least they could have done was contact the police,”

Newsday was told, Ammon left his Chaguanas home to go to the fish market in Sea Lots when he was killed.

He took the 5 am bus from Chaguanas to Port of Spain, and was crossing the Beetham Highway when, as he got on the eastbound lane, he was hit by a car. Ammon died on the roadway as the car sped off.

Ammon’s wife said as soon as she heard her husband had gotten into an accident and was at hospital, she went to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where he was hospitalised, but by the time she got there, he had already died.

“I think after a while it hits you that this person is not coming back, and it is not as if he was sick and I got to talk to him. I didn’t even get to say goodbye.”

Ammon was described as a family-oriented man who did everything he could for his grandchildren.

Newsday was told he worked at the fish market in Sea Lots, repairing and making fishing nets.