St James resident escapes near hit

“God was with me, God was with me,” was all Marcia Jordan Shepherd could declare after a car ploughed into the family-owned Marcy’s Bar at Douglin Road, Weston St James around 3 p.m. on Friday.

The vehicle landed just inches away from Shepherd who cannot walk because of sciatic nerve pain and arthritis.

Barbados TODAY understands the driver lost control of the vehicle. He escaped without serious injury.

Police are continuing investigations.

Shepherd, who used to operate the popular bar, but later turned over operations to her children, told reporters at the scene she was eating a meal when she heard an unusual sound.

“I hear this rumbling coming. So, I see this thing flipping through the air, flipping through the air, coming at me, but I can’t move because I didn’t have my walker to move. And I see this car come and land right side of me and I see the driver get out and walk away. That is when I tried to get up from the table to move away,” she recalled.

Shepherd, who admitted to still feeling shocked, suggested that if there was no electrical pole outside her home, the car might have gone through the house and hurt the other occupants, including her grandchildren and son.

She expressed hope that her previous calls for speed humps on the road would be taken seriously.
(BT)