Widow: I warned him to be careful

Cedeno, a policeman for the past 18 years, died in an accident along the Solomon Hochoy Highway in the Claxton Bay area on Monday morning.

According to police at about 11.45 am, Cedeno of Hercules Village was driving a black Kia SUV along the highway when it crashed into a guard rail near the MacAulay flyover.

At the time, Cedeno’s three female relatives were also passengers and up to late yesterday, the women who are Canadian nationals were listed in critical condition at hospital.

Cedeno recently moved to Hercules Village and resided with his wife and three children one of whom is a three-month-old baby.

At the house of mourning, Mrs Cedeno said that her husband left home on Saturday morning for work. “He kissed the children goodbye and as I watched him leave the house, I stopped him and told him to be careful on the roads and drive safe,” the emotional woman said.

“What is really hurting me is I told him to be safe on the road as I always did. It hurts me so much to know that he is gone,” she cried.

Investigators believe the policeman may have fallen asleep while driving. The grieving woman said that on Monday while at home with her children she received a telephone call that her husband was involved in an accident.

“When I got the news I prayed that he would be okay. But when I went to the hospital I had to identify his body. I am so hurt, we just welcomed our baby son,” she said, adding that child will now grow up not knowing his father.

Cedeno was the sole breadwinner.