The image of the grief-stricken Kojo McPherson Sr as he mourned the sudden and tragic death of his 13-year-old son is one that many cannot erase from their minds. He remembers his boy as his “shining armour” but a speeding driver claimed he mistook him for a “dog” last Sunday on the railway embankment at Paradise, and he was struck down.
So severe were the lad’s injuries that his father described seeing a mangled body lying on the roadway with severe head injuries. It was an end to the life of a “bright” youngster who was his father’s pride and joy and whose dream was to become a civil engineer. The President’s College student, Kojo McPherson Jr, became the 11th person to be killed on the country’s roadways since December 23, while well over 100 have died during 2014.
The pain of the father is something all too familiar to Denise Dias who lost her daughter Alecia 19 years ago, and who has been fighting for safer roadways ever since. Instead of a reduction in the number of road deaths, however, she has seen relative after relative mourn the death of their loved ones. Through the Alecia Foundation and Mothers in Black Dias has
