A grief-stricken Pastor Gifton Wallace wiped tears from his eyes yesterday as he recalled the final moments of his elderly mother's life.

The 43-year-old man said it was only minutes after his mother, 76-year-old Sybil Green, knocked on his bedroom door and said goodbye that news surfaced that the elderly woman was mowed down by a minibus when it got out of control on Olympic Way in Kingston.

The conductor, who residents claimed was driving the bus at the time of the incident, fled the scene leaving the disabled minibus and the dying woman on the sidewalk shortly before 6:00 am.

"This is not how my mother should have died, My mother is an old woman, she should have died lying on her bed. Instead she was killed by some careless person rushing to make a dollar," Wallace cried angrily, as a group of teary-eyed women sang hymns and prayed at his home on Morrison Avenue in Olympic Gardens.

Wallace said that the woman was on her way to a prayer meeting at the nearby Fire Baptist Holiness Church when he was alerted by neighbours that she had been hit and was lying on the sidewalk along the roadway.

"I could not understand. My mother had just knocked on the doors to wake us up and because it was just after 5:00 am and she was ready, she decided to go ahead. Only to go out there and see my mother with her bones sticking out of her foot and *lo** coming from her head," said Wallace.
Yesterday's accident triggered a huge demonstration along the busy roadway.

Placard-bearing residents condemned the accident and called for more stringent disciplinary measures for minibus operators that ply the Waterhouse route.

"This thing should not have happened. Is an old lady the man hit down and run gone. The driver them don't have no discipline, especially on this route and is full time now the police them get them in order," a female resident shouted, as police officers tried to maintain calm.

The residents claimed that the conductor fled the scene in another minibus