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i find the police should have gone in the water to save the young man seeing that they were first on the scene instead of waiting for the ambulance and fire department to arrive. Are'nt they trained in first aid or CPR?

@Concerned: Who said they did not went into the water and remove the body? I think that the person who caused the accident should have thought of that first and get him out. Also ppl around By the time the police reach he dead

That someone is hit in an accident can happen, but that no one helped is sad. That the driver didn't know she hit someone because she was on the cellular is just plain out ridiculous. I hope that the prosecutor follows up on this matter and not let it drag on like the suckergarden case.

Why the emphasis on whether or not he drowned? There's cause and effect here. He landed in the trench with water because he was knocked down and thrown in there by a vehicle. His last breaths could have been taken on the road, but it so happens that he landed in the water, so ofcourse there will be water in his lungs. "Elementary, my dear Watson!"
The direct cause of his death was being hit by the vehicle; the water in his lungs is merely the result of landing in water. If he had stopped breathing on land, what would you have focused on then, asphyxiation?

It's really sad that another life had to be lost because of recklessness of road users. May his family find the strength to deal with this tragic loss.

And people wonder why Police are out there doing traffic controls! The road seems to be much safer when people see Police out hard on the road, driving without talking on the phone, seat belts and all that. It's for a reason that driving while talking on your phone is illegal people! Yes for YOU Politrictians and Police officers!

SAD AND ESPECIALLY WHERE THERE IS NO LAW. FIRST IS SPEED LIMIT TO SE IF SHE RESPECTED IT, WAS SHE OVER TAKEN AT TH TIME ALL THAT. BUT WHAT THEY WILL SAY"IS ACCIDENT NO JAIL, NOTHING , BURY UR DEAD. DAM I JUST HATE THIS SO MUCH. AN ACCIDENT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE, BUT SORRY TO SAY SOME PPL DON'T CARE AND MAYBE WAS ON BB TOO. THATS ALL THEY DO NOW

Look how ppl can add to a story here on the island. First they added that the police did not take the man out of the water on time. Now, they are saying that cellular phone caused the accident. Where in the story are all these things? You ppl yourself are murderers.

The only logical post up there right now is that of "Y". The police cannot rule out the fact that the driver is responsible for the death. Whether he landed in water or on land.

Nothing changes the fact that the driver is 100% responsible. Is it any different if he landed on a steel bar and got impaled and died or if he landed in water and drowned because he was unconscious or too injured to help himself out of the water? Ridiculous.

This is how i see it.The driver is responsible for their action. Because when you behind the wheel. You are responsible for your surroundings and for people who is walking or crossing the road. The only thing the police or judge can say and maybe give the driver no time in jail. Is if they say well there was no zebrapad! But not even that can save the driver because by the look at the car and for the case of death for the young man. She was driving very fast. More than 50mph for sure! And i bet most of you ppl in sxm don't know the speed limit in sxm? Well if you did'nt know is 50mph! And thats everywhere in sxm no matter what road you on! Unless they change it. But when I did my drivers licence I read in the book it's 50mph! But in sxm 50mph is nothing that's a joke!

R.I.P to the young fella!

But if he was walking down the road with a friend (or friends), knocked down by the car (and rolled down) into the water. How come the friend(s) didn't get or help him out of the water? And normally the police don't reach that fast on the scene, by the time they reach he was already drowned. That's why it is strange that the friend(s) didn't take him out of the water. Or were they too shocked to move a muscle?

"Y's" post is not logical because a person will only have water in their lungs if they were still breathing.
Once you are dead you cannot accumulate any water in your lungs.

So, let's wait and see what the pathologist will find before commenting.

Although the case itself is already sad because a human life was taken, I do hope he was dead before landing in the water, otherwise it is even more sad knowing no efforts was made to take him out of the water before the police arrived.

In that case who knows a life might have been safed.

If you look at the pics on sxm island time, he is being pulled out of the water by pa**erby it seems. But the issue here is that another life was lost. I expect a full investigation and I caution fellow drivers to be carefull on our streets. Pedestrians take caution as well, do not depend on others to look after you.
May the young man's soul rest in peace.

@sad

You are right.
If he has water in his lungs, he drowned.
Now....why did his friend not pull him out???

This is sad, but I am a**uming the water is so dirty, nobody wants to go in it, because of disease.

very sad

May God grant him eternal rest.

This is a message to one and all:

Please give respect when using the road as you are not the only one using it.

This goes for: from pedrestrians to his Excellency Governor Drs. EB Holiday.

If this driver is a mother and she was using her phone of bb when she hit this boy, I know she is not having a good time dealing with this? Whatever happen to the other woman who knock down the other guy on bush road (he died) driving (speeding?). I believe these SUV are too big for some of these drivers. Please return to the regular size cars so that you can see the people walking on the sidewalk.

@MK: I was at the scene of the accident and the police DID NOT take the young man body out of the water. It was the bystander on the scene. And if you don’t believe, go on www.sxmislandtimes.com and see the pictures for yourself.

@y: I am not going to call you stupid or irrational. And don’t let MK make you into one of those I just mention. I have always learn, if you don’t know something ask a question, don’t talk or do stupid shit. If someone is hit by a car and is throw in the air, landing on the pavement, without being run over by that same car or another car, that person 99% of the time will not die immediately. That person may or may not be unconscious, and may die at a later time (minutes, hours or even days) of the injuries they sustain from the hit of the car or when that person hit the pavement. And normally unconscious individuals do breathe air, not water, we are not fishes.
And sorry to say, dead people do not take in water into their lungs, there dead and not breathing in anything. And water is just not going to flow in the lungs like that.
Do you know what these words are, “Murder, Attempted Murder and Manslaughter”, well there are a few other and one of them is Negligence Homicide.
If someone (like this young man) is hit so hard by a car, that throw him in the air and landing him in water, and is unconscious in that water, without immediate help he WILL drown, because he is breathing in the water.
And why I mention Negligence Homicide. Now the police have to determine what led up to the accident; what the driver was doing, and the speed of the vehicle, distance from the sidewalk, why didn’t she stop immediately when she recognized that she hit something, why did she continue driving and park on the other side of the road, why didn’t she try and help the young man out of the water, and if she couldn’t help him out herself why she didn’t stop the traffic and ask someone for help.
They need to do an autopsy to find out if the young man died as a result of the impact (trauma on the body) and was dead before he hit the water, you can call that an accident. Or was he unconscious and drowning (meaning he was in the water and got no help and drown). And if drowning is the case, Negligence Homicide.

@MK: you wrote this” Is it any different if he landed on a steel bar and got impaled and died or if he landed in water and drowned because he was unconscious or too injured to help himself out of the water? Ridiculous.”

I don’t even know what to tell you with the bull shit you have written there.

He couldn't swim because his pants were to low, ha ha ha

@Navigator: The speed limit is 50 km/h and not 50 mph.
@YES.......: Most likely persons did not want to venture in the water due to this. Whatever the reason may be, a man lost his life. May his soul rest in peace.

Now i read one article that said police and firefighters were on the scene and did not help the victim out of the water. tel me that is not true. i see on tv all the time where police and firefighters risk their lives to save a little bird hanging from it's nest or a little kitten fallen in a tight space, here we have a a human being in dirty water and these officers did not eve try to help him because they did not want to get their nice clothes dirty. is that hoe little some of us think of a human life? wow. i hope that report was not correct.

that is not the job of the police maybe fire dept. That is why they didnt go in the water Ask if u dont know

@chacha: Let me ask you this. If the young man was your brother, would you say that same s..t?

Because its not the job of the police they would just let someone die (a**uming he was alive in the water) sad. I

Whoever was on the scene as the accident happened had to go and turn him right side up and out of the water....

article says he was walking with another person why didnt he fish him out the water? why didnt the driver or all the rest of the useless people standing around?

yes he most probably died of drowning, if there are signs of water in the lungs means he was still alive and breathing when he hit the water.

It is really a serious state of affairs when humans view other humans as being nothing more than an expendable piece of garbage. This incident reminds me a story in the USA last year where firefighters showed up to a fire burning someone's residence and after finding out the victims were in arrears with a tax that was related to the fire services, they stood by and allowed the residence to burn to the ground.
We now have institutions that would allow you to die if there is no insurance or evidence of being able to finance your care.
We are now at the place in the 21st century where a person is allowed to die because "it ain't my responsibility".
What #1_Suspect wrote is absolutely correct, but there must also be an internal investigation launched into the unresponsive behaviours of the police and fire departments.
What is the reasoning behind offering of no a**istance and "allowing" a civilian to retrieve a "body" (still don't know if he could died during the uprofessional removal) from a "crime scene?
It is certainly a case that some high profile law firm can pursue pro bono and provide answers to the family and friends of the victim.
BTW, @ Lil SXM, your comment indicates that it is a high probabilty that your brian is also too low. I trust you are not one of those persons who if you fell on our backside you would suffer severe brain damage. Your attitude is insensitive at best, stupid at worse.