{"id":2414,"date":"2019-06-19T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2019-06-19T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:58:12","slug":"crushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"CRUSHED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Whitehouse mourns \u2018Village Mother\u2019<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Michael Nattoo<\/strong> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On Friday, June 14,\nin the usually quiet community of Whitehouse, St. James, one resident\u2019s account\nof the sound of bones breaking beneath a freightliner truck painted the tragic\ncircumstances under which 60-year-old beloved \u2018Village Mother\u2019, Jennifer\nWright, lost her life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey said it was purely accidental,\u201d explained Ryan, one of\nWright\u2019s six children. \u201cI had just helped her carry down some crates with\nbottles to the truck, and then I went back inside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wright, who had been involved in the business of selling\nbottles back to the distribution trucks, remained outside for a while after,\nbut moments later, Ryan reported hearing her say \u201cbut watch ya!\u201d He explained\nto the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong> that following that outburst, an alarm was raised\nby a neighbour, which was quickly followed by panicked shouts from the truck\ndriver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan rushed outside to a scene he explained he is still\nhaving trouble forgetting \u2013 the bloody wheels of the truck, the truck driver\nshouting to him to call an ambulance, and the partially crushed body of his\nmother lying half way between the front and back wheels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Ryan\u2019s account, as well as that of the neighbour who\nreportedly witnessed the whole ordeal, the back wheels of the truck had run\nover the elderly woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeing a lifeguard for years and someone who was well-versed\nin CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), I rushed over to her body. I decided to\nfirst check her pulse, but when I did, there was nothing. By that time, my\nmother was already dead. I don\u2019t know who called the ambulance, but apparently\nsomeone did. They took a while to come, but they eventually did, and the police\ncame too.\u201d Ryan further revealed that the neighbour who was raising the alarm\nexplained to him that when the truck first ran over Wright, he could hear the\nsounds of her bones breaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Coral Gardens Police, the driver of the\ntruck allegedly reversed without knowing that Wright was behind the unit. She\nwas accidentally mowed down by the truck, which was immediately followed by the\ntruck\u2019s co-driver getting the driver\u2019s attention. Wright was eventually rushed\nto the hospital where, according to the police, she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LIES AND RECKLESSNESS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Ryan, however, someone is lying about what\nreally happened. \u201cThey claimed that there was somebody outside the truck\ndirecting it, so how did they not see that my mother was behind it? Something\ndoesn\u2019t add up. I heard them telling the police that, but it\u2019s not true,\u201d he\nshared. \u201cThey\u2019re telling a bunch of lies.\u201d He further alleged that they were\nbeing reckless, and that the incident could have been avoided had they not been\nmore careful. \u201cThey said they were even blowing the truck horn. That\u2019s a lie.\nIt\u2019s a small community, sir. If they were blowing it, we would have heard.\nNobody heard no truck horn blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the tragic incident, no one from the distribution\ncompany in question has contacted the family, Ryan confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo one, aside from the investigating officer, has contacted\nus. So right now, we just have to huddle together as a family and handle this.\nIt\u2019s hard, and I\u2019ve been zoned out ever since the whole thing, but we have to\njust handle it,\u201d Ryan relayed to the Western Mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COMMUNITY IN SHAMBLES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt feels like a boulder just rolled through the community.\nShe was a mother to everyone in the community. Any likkle thing they would come\nto her. She really was the \u2018Village Mother\u2019 \u2013 caring and loving everyone. She\neven informally adopted. Now, the entire community is just crushed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wright\u2019s first child, who was residing overseas for some\ntime, is expected to arrive on the island today, and is expected to meet with\nother siblings to discuss the way forward in the matter, Ryan revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitehouse mourns \u2018Village Mother\u2019 Michael Nattoo &#8211; Staff Reporter On Friday, June 14, in the usually quiet community of Whitehouse, St. James, one resident\u2019s account of the sound of bones breaking beneath a freightliner truck painted the tragic circumstances under which 60-year-old beloved \u2018Village Mother\u2019, Jennifer Wright, lost her life. \u201cThey said it was purely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1305,75,1308,1307,1306],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crushed","tag-fatal-accident","tag-freightliner","tag-village-mother","tag-whitehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}