The daughter of Leona Scott who was fatally knocked down while crossing in La Romaine on Monday night is pleading with the police to release the footage of the incident to help catch the culprit and get closure.
Shernice St Clair, the eldest of Scott's four children, said she was told that there was closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at the Gulf City intersection where her mother met her death.
Police sources confirmed that there are working cameras at the traffic lights there, but they could not say whether or not investigators obtained the footage.
St Clair, her mother, their friends and neighbours had gone on an excursion to Clifton Hill Beach Resort. On their way back to their Indian Walk, Princes Town home, St Clair wanted to urinate while other passengers wanted to purchase food from KFC, so the bus driver stopped near the traffic lights around 7.45 pm.
St Clair said, "Before we stopped my mother was dancing and having a good time on the bus. My mother was the first person off the bus. It happen real quick. My best friend who is like a daughter to my mother said, 'Ma don't cross that road.' Then right after we hear a bang and someone shout out my mother get bounce down. I jump through the window and cross the road. I see my mother in a puddle of water on the side of the road. Blood was coming out her nose and mouth."
St Clair said a nurse stopped and took her mother to the San Fernando General Hospital.
"I think she died on the way," said St Clair. The accident caused a collision with other vehicles. St Clair, however, said no one at the scene admitted to knocking down her mother.
She said her aunt went to the San Fernando Police Station yesterday for an update but was told that the matter was still being investigated.
"I want to see the footage. I want to see who bounce my mother. I want to see what really happen," said St Clair.
She said her mother, a single parent, had plans to fix her house. Scott's other children are 21, 16 and two years old.
Scott's funeral service is expected to be held tomorrow at the Open Bible Church at Indian Walk and then to the Perry Young Cemetery.