Four-year-old Onayah Williams-Blackman might have sensed her death hours before it actually happened on Friday night.

The Level II student of Beacon Learning Centre at Belmont, St. George's had been asking her mother about death four hours before a man driving a white Escudo vehicle on the Mt. Hartman road snuffed the life out of her body.

In relating the tragic event to GRENADA TODAY, Onayah's mother, Odinga Williams said that her daughter related to her on the fatal day that she wasn't ready to die as yet. The child was considered to be the pride and joy of Odinga and Anslem Harry Blackman who lived in the Mt. Hartman area.

She was struck down around 7.25 p.m last Friday night, approximately a minute's walk away from her home. According to the mother, the youngster left both she and the father sitting opposite their home to get an Oreo biscuit in the house.

She said that shortly after Onayah left a bus pulled up and parked in front of the house blocking their view of the child entering and leaving the building. She recalled asking the driver to move his vehicle so that she could see the movement of her daughter.

The mother said that the driver got back into the vehicle to move the bus but unknown to the mother the little girl was already behind the bus coming back from inside the house.

 Onayah was said to be looking around for other passing vehicles and had her head stuck out from behind the parked bus as she attempted to cross the road once again to back to her parents. The mother indicated  that she didn't see her daughter behind the bus and  presumed that she was still inside the house.

She saw an Escudo vehicle speeding towards her and heard an impact. She believed that the vehicle had struck a dog but soon heard a man sitting on the opposite side of the road shout out, He kill her.

Utter disbelief and shock engulfed the mother when she realised that her only child was crushed by the fast moving  vehicle. All Odinga remembered saying at the time was: I want me child back.
The bereaved mother said that her boyfriend had already crossed the road, picked up the child and was holding her in his arms, They rushed Onayah to the St George's General Hospital in hope that she might still be alive only to be informed that she died on the spot as her head was split to the back.

According to the mother, on the morning before her daughter's death, the child awoke from sleep in a very good mood and that they talked together and even watched television. Onayah wanted to look at, Dora and then they watched Walker Texas Ranger together.

The cheerful four year old also started to the mother question after question and to make her own comments on certain issues.  Onayah also requested her mother to read to her Daniel in the Lions Den. The mother said that she had to do this about 12 times that day to please her daughter.

Still not being satisfied, little Onayah asked one of her own friends and her grand-mother to read the same story to her. The child also asked for chicken soup and was served with it twice on that day.

The upset mother pointed out that the driver of the vehicle that took her child's life, Carl Redhead, only came to see her on the following day of the accident to apologise for the incident. His family has since offered to assist with the funeral expenses of little Onayah.

The fatal accident brings the number of road fatalities for the year in Grenada to four, of which three involved youngsters under the age of 10.

The Traffic Department of the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) has often called on motorists to exercise due care and caution on the nation's network of roads.