An­na-Lisa Paul

A man who was killed in an ac­ci­dent in Ari­ma yes­ter­day re­mains uniden­ti­fied. Around 9.50 am, the vic­tim who works in the O'Meara In­dus­tri­al Es­tate was struck by a car head­ing east along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way, near the Food Bas­ket Su­per­mar­ket. Po­lice re­ports in­di­cate that the vic­tim, of East In­di­an de­scent and who ap­peared to be in his 50s, had gone to buy a news­pa­per and was at­tempt­ing to cross from the south­ern side when he was hit.

Res­i­dents were un­able to iden­ti­fy the vic­tim, but said they be­lieved he worked as a se­cu­ri­ty guard as he was of­ten seen in the area. Up to 4 pm yes­ter­day, the 38-year-old dri­ver of Al­pha Cres­cent, Bon Air, whose Nis­san Ce­firo struck the man, re­mained at the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal un­der po­lice guard. This lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty brought the num­ber of road deaths to 113 for the year.

Ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for help in iden­ti­fy­ing the vic­tim, of­fi­cers urged any­one with miss­ing rel­a­tives to con­tact the Ari­ma Po­lice at 667-2910. Sgt Khan, of the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion, is head­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.