    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON AUGUST 8, 1996 DECEASED WAS A PEDESTRIAN ATTEMPTING TO CROSS U.S. 1 FROM WEST TO EAST.  A VEHICLE WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND IN THE INSIDE LANE OF U.S. 1 AND STRUCK THE DECEASED WITH THE FRONT LEFT SIDE OF THE VEHICLE.  THE DECEASED WAS THROWN ONTO THE HOOD OF THE VEHICLE AND THEN EJECTED ONTO THE MEDIAN.   POLICE AND FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND FOUND HIM EXPIRED ON THE SCENE. 