BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TERRENCE BROWNE, the man who was admitted to the Joseph N France General Hospital with multiple injuries following an accident on the island main road in the vicinity of Brighton Estate, is dead.
According to Police Press and Public Relations Officer Inspector Cromwell Henry, Browne succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, August 15. He however stated that no information was available at this time to ascertain the cause of his death.
On Tuesday, July 28 shortly before 9:00 a.m., Browne of Brighton Estate was struck by a passenger bus (H5585) a short distance from his home.
On the morning of the accident, the driver of the bus, Sylvester Allen of Lodge Village, told SKNVibes that while he was travelling from Basseterre to Molineux Village and after engaging a bend in the vicinity of Brighton Estate, Browne ran from a pathway leading to his residence and collided with his bus on the island main road.
“At about 8:45 this morning, I was driving my bus with one passenger heading towards Molineux from Basseterre. After coming around a bend in Brighton Estate, a man suddenly ran across. I applied my brakes and at the same time swerved to the right of the road, but the man kept running in the path of the vehicle and I could not have avoided hitting him,” Allen said.
Allen also informed that he later found out that Browne had signalled a passenger bus heading towards Basseterre to stop and was running “to catch the bus, and I suspect he didn’t look to his right before crossing the road”.
The vicinity in which the accident occurred is but a short distance from the bend, which can be classified as a ‘blind turn’ on the island main road.
This media house learnt that Browne had suffered multiple injuries to his right leg, both hands and other parts of his body, and blood was seen oozing from his mouth.
Browne is the third person to have lost his life by traffic accident for the year. The first was 44-year-old Pincheon Hanley of Ponds Extension, who was struck by a motor jeep while attempting to get from the northern side of Pond Road to the southern. That incident took place on May 16 and Hanley succumbed to his injuries at the Joseph N. France General Hospital.
The second victim was Keith Brombill of Stapleton Village, who died on the spot after being struck by a vehicle while working on the roadway at the junction of Farm’s Road and the island’s main road on Tuesday, August 11.
