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realestate 25 June 2013
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In loving memory: Eve Dellar with a photo of her and son Jimmy near the spot where he died after being hit by a car on Stony Point Rd. Picture: Cameron McCullough
Go slow in memory of Jimmy By Cameron McCullough THE letter to the editor in Western Port News (29/5/13) caught the eye of Eve Dellar straight away. The road mentioned is painfully familiar and the topic of the letter even more so. “Today I received a speeding ticket for doing 64km/h in a 60 zone,” the letter began. “The camera that detected me was set up in Stony Point Rd, Crib Point, at 5am on a Monday morning. As anyone who has travelled along the sec-
tion of Stony Point Rd near Symonds St knows, the road is more than twice the width of many roads, it is straight, flat and I have never seen an accident there in all the times I have driven along it. It is obvious the camera was there at that time of the morning to raise revenue.” Mrs Dellar’s heart sank as she read the words, written by a resident of Crib Point who was upset at receiving a $176 fine. “My first reaction was anger, then I got upset,” Mrs Dellar said.
Her mind went back to 15 December 1983 when her four-year-old son James Anthony Dellar (Jimmy) was hit by a car and killed on Stony Point Rd. The events of that evening came flooding back. “It was after dinner. Jimmy asked if he could go outside and play some more and I told him he could, but not to go near the road,” she recalled. “There is no way of knowing why he tried to cross the road, but he had a little friend who lived on the other side and he went to cross. He looked
one way and made sure it was clear but then stepped into the path of a car coming from the other direction.” What happened next is described by Mrs Dellar as the longest half-hour of her life. “The bystanders who came to Jimmy’s aid kept me away from him. They put a blanket on him, but wouldn’t let me be with him. I guess they thought it was for the best. “When the paramedic got there he ordered me inside. They began working on Jimmy. The next thing, I
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heard a terrible scream from the lady who had been driving the car and another scream from my mother-in-law. ‘There is no God!’ was the next thing to come from my mother-in-law’s mouth. I grabbed her and said ‘Please don’t scream like that. There is a God and Jimmy is with him now’, trying to comprehend the horror of what was happening.” Mrs Dellar is visibly upset when recounting the death of her only son nearly 30 years ago. Continued Page 7
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