Sher­von Med­i­na had walked from her hus­band’s home to near­by shop on the Diego Mar­tin Main Road on Tues­day night hop­ing it would be open.

That trip around 7.15 pm would lead to tragedy as a car, re­port­ed­ly dri­ven by a po­lice of­fi­cer, sped over the pave­ment she trod, pitch­ing her in­to the air, killing her al­most in­stant­ly.

Med­i­na, 46, of Ifill Lane, Pin­to Road, Ari­ma was pro­nounced dead at the St James Med­ical Fa­cil­i­ty.

The in­ci­dent left res­i­dents of the area in­censed, not on­ly by the fact that an ap­par­ent act of reck­less dri­ving caused the death of the 46-year-old woman but the pos­si­bil­i­ty that his fel­low of­fi­cers may have at­tempt­ed to cov­er up their col­league’s reck­less­ness.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice re­port, the dri­ver of the car which struck and killed Med­i­na, at­tempt­ed to over­take an­oth­er ve­hi­cle which had just turned on­to the main road from Sa­landy Street but in­stead clipped the fend­er of the ve­hi­cle and mount­ed the near­by pave­ment where Med­i­na was walk­ing.

Res­i­dents said the car was trav­el­ling at such a high speed, it stopped two streets away or about 100 me­tres away from where it struck the woman.

CCTV video of the ac­ci­dent was shared on so­cial me­dia, spark­ing out­rage from view­ers.

“That kin­da speed he was go­ing at, as an of­fi­cer, it wasn’t re­al­ly called for. When I went down, fur­ther down by the bus ter­mi­nus, them fel­las tell me he pass with a pace. So the pace he was go­ing at, he re­al­ly couldn’t stop. You can’t tell me you was go­ing at a nor­mal speed, and your ve­hi­cle end up quite up there,” said Neil Mc­Far­lane, a Bagatelle res­i­dent who came to the scene af­ter hear­ing the com­mo­tion.

A piece of a bumper, a bro­ken brake disc pad, and li­cense plate were found at var­i­ous spots along the pave­ment. The li­cense plate was found on Walk­er Street, two streets away from Sa­landy Street where the cars col­lid­ed.

How­ev­er, the res­i­dents were per­plexed when first re­spon­ders placed the dri­ver of ve­hi­cle which emerged from Sa­landy Street in hand­cuffs, in­stead of the po­lice of­fi­cer who struck the woman.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the scene on Wednes­day, nu­mer­ous res­i­dents ex­pressed their anger about the in­ci­dent. Sev­er­al mo­torists up­on notic­ing our cam­eras stopped to say the of­fi­cer should be ar­rest­ed.

“Far too long we see­ing of­fi­cers do­ing cer­tain kind of things and get­ting away with, you not hear­ing (any­thing), it just comes and dead. Since Gary Grif­fith is the com­mis­sion­er of po­lice and he stand­ing by what he say and what he mean, we want some kind of jus­tice for this,” said Mc­Far­lane al­so point­ed out a near­by sign which had la­belled that area a school zone, and the speed lim­it for that stretch at 30 kilo­me­ters per hour.

One woman, who wished not to be iden­ti­fied, al­so ques­tioned the speed the dri­ver was mov­ing, and was grate­ful that Steve’s Shop was not open, as nu­mer­ous peo­ple would have been on pave­ment. Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith said the mat­ter would be thor­ough­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed.