04/09/08 - Negligent homicide with a motor vehicle is defined as operating a motor vehicle in a reckless manner that unintentionally results in death

Local Police have declined to identify the driver, first saying the case was under investigation and yesterday saying his name would not be made public because he will not be charged.

Driver won't be charged in death By Martin B. Cassidy Greenwich Time - Staff Writer Quote: "I feel just as bad for the guy driving the truck as I do for my sister," Watson's younger brother, Edwin Watson, said. "It was just a terrible tragedy" Story: Police will not bring a negligent homicide charge against the driver of a garbage truck that struck and killed a 63-year-old Milbank Avenue woman in January, Greenwich Police Sgt. Timothy Berry said yesterday. Stamford prosecutors late last week rejected an application for a warrant seeking to charge the truck's driver with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle and cite him with unsafe backing in the death of Elizabeth Watson. Watson was struck around 6:30 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 31 by a Finocchio Brothers sanitation truck as it backed out of an alley near 12 Havemeyer Place, where it had been emptying dumpsters, police have said.... ....Watson worked at many Greenwich Avenue stores since the 1970s, stores such as D.W. Rogers clothing store, Woolworth's department store and Mead's stationery that have since disappeared, her family said. Most recently, she had worked at Pet Pantry on Railroad Avenue. Watson's younger brother, Edwin Watson, 58, of Norwalk said his sister was walking to work at the Pet Pantry when the accident occurred. Please See: Elizabeth Watson 1944-2008 Sunday, February 10, 2008 By Bill Clark This afternoon the sanctuary at the First Presbyterian Church was just as full as it had been for the regular morning service. We were there to honor our beloved friend Elizabeth Watson, who was killed in a tragic accident a week ago Thursday. Elizabeth stood only about four feet tall, but her physical stature was no measure of the huge impact she had on those who knew her. For some forty years she sang in the church choir, and rarely if ever missed a Sunday. Her enthusiasm for everything was infectious. She was child-like in her simplicity. Her emotions were nothing if not genuine. She loved life. Elizabeth, you see, was slightly impaired. Not retarded - that's too strong a word, although those who didn't get to know her might have labeled her as such.... ======================================== Please send comments to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com

02/11/08 - Bill Clark Remember's A Wonerful Greenwich Woman

Elizabeth Watson 1944-2008

by Bill Clark

This afternoon the sanctuary at the First Presbyterian Church was just as full as it had been for the regular morning service. We were there to honor our beloved friend Elizabeth Watson, who was killed in a tragic accident a week ago Thursday.

Elizabeth stood only about four feet tall, but her physical stature was no measure of the huge impact she had on those who knew her. For some forty years she sang in the church choir, and rarely if ever missed a Sunday. Her enthusiasm for everything was infectious. She was child-like in her simplicity. Her emotions were nothing if not genuine. She loved life.

Elizabeth, you see, was slightly impaired. Not retarded - that's too strong a word, although those who didn't get to know her might have labeled her as such. She hobbled rather than walked; she was hard of hearing; she came right out with whatever she was thinking; and on a scale of prepossessiveness running from 1 to 10 would probably have come in at about 0.5. But none of that really mattered.

Outwardly unemployable, Elizabeth found work at three of our Town's best-known commercial institutions: D. W. Rogers department store, which went out of business after Elizabeth had worked there ten years; F. W. Woolworth's, which was sold to an upscale chain store after Elizabeth had worked there for ten years; and Mead's Stationery Store, which went out of business after Elizabeth had worked there for ten years. She outlasted them all.

Her final job was at the Pet Pantry, where she loved working with the animals and gave them all pet names - "my babies", as she called them. She was on her way to work at 6:30 AM that Thursday morning, on foot as always, and heading for her morning cup of coffee at Starbucks. In an alleyway less than fifty feet from the coffee shop, a large dump truck was backing out. Elizabeth, slight of stature and hearing-impaired, was as unaware of its presence as the driver of the truck was of hers. She was crushed to death.

Everyone in church this afternoon was crying. When we were with Elizabeth, we saw life through her eyes: simple, bright, and beautiful. Everything was wonderful - wonder-full - to her, and through her we all learned how beautiful life really is. She was a walking sermon; she was a real sweetheart in the truest sense of the word.

There will be an empty chair - hers - in the choir loft for the remainder of Lent. On Easter, it will be filled by someone else. But we will carry Elizabeth in our hearts as long as we live, mindful of her pluck and joy; and if sometimes life tries its best to get us down, we will remember her bright soprano voice saying, as she so often did, "Isn't it wonderful?"

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