BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – ELVIS RICHARDSON, driver of the vehicle that struck Joseph ‘Finey’ Allen on the Bay Road in Newtown, was arrested and charged for causing the 83-year-old’s death.
According to a police press release, Officer-in-Charge of the Traffic Department Inspector Cromwell Henry informed that Richardson was formally arrested and charged yesterday (Nov. 16).
Henry said that the Haynes Smith Village resident had appeared before the Basseterre Magistrate’s Court, where his conditional release was set at EC$40 000.
He also informed that on Tuesday (Nov. 15) an autopsy was performed on Allen’s body by Resident Pathologist Dr. Adrian Nunez, who found that death was due to hypovelemic shock secondary to road accident.
Hypovelemic shock is defined as an emergency condition in which severe blood and fluid loss makes the heart unable to pump enough blood to the body, which can cause many organs to stop working.
The fatal accident occurred between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. on Friday (Nov. 11) on the Bay Road about 25 metres from Pitcairn Street where Allen resided, in the vicinity of St. Kitts Scooter Rental.
At the time of the accident, Henry told this media house that “preliminary investigations revealed that Allen, a pedestrian, was crossing the Bay Road to get towards the seaward side of the road when he collided with motor vehicle P2341.
“The vehicle, driven by Elvis Richardson of Haynes-Smith Village, was at the time travelling towards Basseterre from the direction of Bird Rock”.
He noted that Dr. Mervyn Laws was summoned to the scene and had pronounced Allen dead.
According to residents in the area, Allen would routinely, around that time, leave his home to relax for hours on the wall facing the Caribbean Sea.
