Senior citizen hit by car during motorcade

Augustine Denton, 79, is nursing head and hip injuries after she was hit by a vehicle that she believes was part of a Jamaica Labour Party political motorcade in Clarendon last Saturday.

"I was at Frankfield doing little shopping and when me a go to cross the road, the car come up and hit me down," she told THE STAR. "I couldn't get up, and somebody saw me and took me up; and one of the man come out the car and put me in the car, say him can't leave me on the road bank, and carry me to hospital."

Confirming the incident, the Frankfield police said about 1:30 p.m. on August 22, Denton was making her way across a section of the Nine Turn roadway in Frankfield when she was hit by a Toyota motor car, which was heading towards Mandeville. The elderly woman was then rushed to hospital by the driver. The police did not say if the driver was warned for prosecution.

"No bone don't break, but me body shake up and all of my body in pain. Me hit me head on the windscreen and me hip get a lick," said Denton. "Right now a stick me have to a move around with, stick; and me never use to walk with stick. Me husband sick and is me use to take care of him; but now I can barely move, so me can't do nothing to help him." Denton's son, Alric, is calling for someone to step in and help his mother. "She old now and she can't do what she use to do, like walk around freely and thing. Presently, she is disabled. She a scramble with stick," he said. Alric told THE STAR that the family would now be faced with added financial stress to care for his ailing parents.

"Me nuh feel good about it, because my father is not well and she was the stronger one to take care of him. Right now a lot of things are going through my mind, because we will have to find someone to look after her and my father now, which she was able to do herself," he said.