Man killed in accident after attending wake

A 56-YEAR-old hospital employee on his way home from a wake was struck dead at the San Fernando Bypass on Friday night. Carlton Foster, was a short distance away from his home at Vernon Joseph Street, at St Joseph Village, when he was killed. Foster was employed as a labourer at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) for the last 22 years. Meanwhile, police were tight-lipped on investigations into the fatal accident, and would not disclose whether it was a hit and run accident, or if someone had been detained. Foster’s wife, Susanna, 46, said the police were hostile to her when she inquired how her husband of eight years had died. Susanna told Sunday Newsday: “When I started to ask if it was a hit and run, one of them told me to ‘shut-up.’”

The woman, a mother of one, recalled that when the family got the tragic news around 10.30 pm on Friday night, she did not yet know if her husband was dead. Susanna told Sunday Newsday: “When we heard what happened my daughter, my granddaughter and I ran out the house. We saw him lying on the ground, his foot was bleeding and his hand was twisted. So I thought he just got some lashes.” The deceased’s wife said an ambulance took him to the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH), when a nurse told her Foster had died. Still reeling in shock from the loss of her husband, Susanna said her husband had not planned to go out on Friday night, but changed his mind at the last minute. Mon Repos Police are continuing investigations.