Family: Country’s latest road fatality victim was a proud and hard worker

A proud and hard worker. This is how Anthony Outram is being remembered by his family.

Outram died in a collision involving a Barbados Police Service van on the Bushy Park Main Road, St Philip, around 8:50 p.m. on Saturday.

According to police, Outram, 44, of Oughterson Road, near Bushy Park, was struck on the left side of the road.

The van was travelling along Bushy Park Main Road coming from the direction of Beulah and going towards the Bushy Park racing circuit.

When a Barbados TODAY team visited the family’s home on Sunday, Robert Haynes, one of Outram’s cousins, said the entire situation has left him “shaken up” as he described how he found out about the accident. 

“We were here and then a guy came here and pull up here … so he come and tell me I see somebody get lick down across the road, and when he pass the body, the body description [fits] my cousin,” Haynes said.

“So, I say we gine across the road and see if the description fit my cousin, and when we got across there, sadly I saw my cousin,” he explained. 

Haynes noted that Outram would be best remembered by the wider Barbadian public for selling breadfruit and other produce on the highway just on the outskirts of the Deighton Griffith School. 

He stressed that his cousin was a hard worker. 

“He was real hardworking and dedicated. He used to go pick breadfruits every morning to meet his demands … sometimes he would [have] to look for over 100 breadfruits a day, man would just go and find them,” Haynes said. 

“He does supply Cocktail Kitchen [and] Harbour Lights. Certain exotic restaurants does call for his breadfruits … he had a lot of clients.”

Ameilia Browne.

Meanwhile, his mother, Ameilia Browne, of Wharton Drive, Boarded Hall, St George, described her son as a hardworking individual whose death is difficult to accept.

“I felt bad to know he gone like that, because you could see he died in a bad way. He got knock down because he was walking on the side of the road, and the police van just hit him … killed him, ” she said.

Browne expressed hope that she would get assistance with the upcoming funeral costs.

(SB)