How an unruly robot taxi driver ended ‘Top Hill’s’ life
For several years, Lloyd Williamson kept the streets of Highgate in St Mary, as clean as he could.
Well, not many people would know who Lloyd Williamson is, but if you mention the alias “Top Hill” then the entire town and its environs would know exactly who is being referred to.
“Top Hill”, who lived in the heart of the town, very close to the police station, was run over by a robot taxi which, as most taxi drivers do these days, was reversing at top speed down the one-way street. The car hit “Top Hill” twice as he stood in the shadows at the edge of the side walk around 1:45 in the afternoon. It happened under the noses of the police at the Highgate Police Station, right outside the facility, on Good Friday, April 26.
It is a common practice for taxi men to reverse down the one-way of Highgate’s narrow main street, but this time a fatal blow was struck against one
who had contributed so much. Apart from being a sanitation
worker, “Top Hill” was a small farmer. Yes, he grew crops that contributed to the nutritional advancement of many.
How many more will have to die before law enforcers come down hard on the drivers of public passenger vehicles? We are playing around with them. We are simply joking.
“Top Hill” could have been around to keep the streets clean and to grow more food, but another member of the motorised mob that has no rules, cut his life story several chapters short.
The driving of these people is getting worse by the day. Between Monday and Friday of last week, I saw the most horrendous driving that one could imagine.
In busy Cross Roads, for example, the driver of a Toyota Coaster minibus zipped around three other vehicles and raced through the red light, long after it had changed to that colour — missing two bewildered pedestrians by a whisker. When will it end? Why can’t we further amend the Road Traffic Act to deal with these hogs decisively?