ONTARIO COLD CASE: Grandmother left for dead in hit-and-run by SUV
Henrietta Bushey was just a few hundred feet from work when
Nearly seven years later, the driver has yet to be arrested.
“He left me in the road; he just left me for dead in the road,” Bushey, now 68, said about the horrific hit-and-run that left her with multiple injuries, including a damaged eye socket and fractured leg.
Bushey, a mother and grandmother, was walking to work on Dec. 8, 2011, and was only minutes away from Grohe Canada, where she worked as an assembler, when she was struck while crossing the street at Lakeshore and Dixie roads at about 5:45 a.m.
She said a “Good Samaritan” stopped, helped her and called 911.
“If there had been no one there to help me, maybe another car would have struck me and I wouldn’t be here right now,” she said.
Peel Regional Police said surveillance video from a nearby eatery shows the vehicle to likely be a dark-coloured GMC Envoy.
Police said in a 2011 news release the driver surely knows he/she struck someone.
“This is someone’s loved one, and if it was one of their loved ones, they would want somebody to come forward,” police said.
The driver of the SUV that struck her remains at large. Police haven’t received a single tip as to the motorist’s whereabouts.
Police Const. Bally Saini said any little tip might help and is urging residents to call police at 905-453-2121, ext. 3710, or Peel Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.
The force’s Major Collision Bureau is reminding residents during the summer months that drivers need to give their full attention to driving safely and obeying the rules of the road while pedestrians should keep in mind that their safety is in their hands, “and that they need to be fully aware, at all times, of the movement of vehicles in their vicinity.”
