Saint Margaret’s Villager knocked down and killed near home

francisco Albeño

Earlier in the newscast, we told you that police need your help in identifying a man found dead on the Western Highway. They also need your assistance in locating driver of a heavy duty vehicle that was involved in a road fatality on Monday night. The hit and run occurred on the Hummingbird Highway at around eight o’clock and claimed the life of a resident of Saint Margaret’s Village. The fifty-one year old victim was heading back home when he was hit and abandoned on the highway. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details in the following report.

Marion Ali, Reporting

This is the scene between miles thirty-three and thirty-four on the Hummingbird Highway where sixty four year old Francisco Albeño lost his life at around eight on Monday night.  Albeño was not far from his home when he was hit by a heavy duty truck.  Karen Borland was at home immediately in front of where Albeño was hit and heard the bang but thought nothing of it at first.

Karen Borland, Neighbour

karen borland

“I mi deh eena my room di watch TV and I hear when di bus pass and right afta di bus pass wa truck pass. Den I hear di bang but den I seh maybe—cause we got some lee pothole yah—so I figure maybe dah dat. So I continue lay down inna di room and den mi daughter run inna di room and seh ‘mommy, mommy dehn knock down somebody’. So we get up and when we get up and run out yah den I si dah Mr. Chico, mi beloved neighbor.  My daughter seh di only truck she si pass dah wah white truck wid container, ih pass right dah di bus.  Ih mi deh by di bar by my bredda deh like thirty minutes, dat dah weh my bredda seh, ih tell ah ih gwein home but ih look like ih neva come all di way home. Ih look like ih stop off and den ih talk and den from deh ih come up cause he always trot di road dah night.”

Albeño was killed just a few hundred yards from his house.  His son,

Luisbin España told News Five that his father was on his way back home when he lost his life.

luisbin España

Luisbin España, Son of Deceased

“He was walking with some friends by the road side and my friend told me that when he turn his back, he said wah vehicle from petroleum knock my stepfather.”

Marion Ali

“Your friend was with him?”

Luisbin España

“Yes, then when he turn his back he said my stepfather dropped and he was bleeding. They come to tell us that my stepfather was in an accident.”

Marion Ali

“Was he coming home or where was he going?”

Luisbin España

“Yes, he was coming home.”

For this stepson, the sudden loss of the man he has called dad since he was five years old will be trying.

Luisbin España

“I am really so sad because he’s my stepfather and he put us from five years to now and he teach us fi work, yes.”

Marion Ali for News Five.

A post mortem will be conducted on Albeño’s body at the Western Regional Hospital.