A very caring human being

I HAVE known and worked closely with Easton Douglas on several projects since the mid-1980s.

One late evening in 1992, somewhere around 7:30 p.m., I was driving with a companion in a northerly direction along Lady Musgrave Road. As I approached the intersection with Fairway Avenue, along which I intended to turn, a very large American car emerged from Fairway Avenue and headed south on Lady Musgrave Road. I realised immediately that rather than sticking to the left hand side of the road, the car was drifting into the righthand lane and headed for a direct head-on collision with my vehicle.

I drifted to the left as far as I could in my lane, but the car continued to drift towards me, at which time I had no other option but to mount the sidewalk, at just then the car hit the rear end of my vehicle.

I immediately emerged, only to discover that the car which hit my vehicle had continued on its way and was observed turning west on to Trafalgar Road.

I quickly re-entered my car, spun around and headed after the hit-and-run motor car in the hope of catching up with it. As I drove through the Trafalgar Road/Knutsford Boulevard intersection, I observed that the hit-and-run car had stopped, with another car blocking its path and a male citizen standing by the driver’s door.

I hurriedly stopped my car and rushed over to have some strong words with the hitand-run culprit. To my amazement, I immediately discovered that the citizen who had chased and blocked the hit-and-run car’s path and was in the process of effecting a citizen’s arrest was no other than Easton Douglas, who quickly asked “Llewelyn, is your car this man just hit?”

What was so amazing was that Easton had not acted because he realised that an acquaintance of his had been wronged, he acted because he realised that a human being had been wronged. Such was the measure of the man.

May his soul be always blessed.

LLEWELYN ALLEN Commissioned Land Surveyor