Deadly Weekend on our Roads: Output of Revellers Turns Drama in St. Paul

11 years, 5 months ago - 19 November 2012, The Défi Media Group
Deadly Weekend on our Roads: Output of Revellers Turns Drama in St. Paul
The carnage on our roads continues. During the weekend, five deaths were reported. Saturday, two victims died at Solitude and Tyack, respectively, while in the small hours of Sunday, an accident caused the death of three people in Phoenix.

A 48 year old pedestrian was fatally hit by a car. The driver and occupant suffered the same fate.

George Thomas, alias Rajen, 48, went out to work on Saturday, he never returned home. The inhabitants of this Guibies, Straws, was employed as a security guard for several days. Since Thursday, the father of three son, the eldest of whom is 24 years old, was responsible for overseeing a tent used for a wedding in St. Paul.

It is 2.30h Sunday, when the forty crosses a resident of Camp Fouquereaux. The latter is located on the other side of the road. There was a problem with his bike. Rajen would have given a hand to repair. Returning to the workplace, tragedy struck. Hardly, the father he had crossed the road, a Peugeot 206, which came from Vacoas and went to Phoenix, collides.

In the vehicle, Woomed Jean Pascal, 35, the driver and the passenger seat, his friend, Jean Olivier Lamy Amédée Senneville, 29 years. Inhabitants Water Coulee and Phoenix respectively, the two friends - employees within the same company - returning from a party with colleagues in Flic-en-Flac. The driver was driving his friend at his home in Eau Coulee.

It all happened in a split second. The violence of the impact, the vigil is projected onto the side of the road. The car, registered 2460 JL 02 continues its wild ride. The driver loses control quickly. After trying to straighten the car 25 meters Jean Pascal Woomed crashed violently against a wall in front of the entrance to a building with apartments.

The car has been turned into a pile of scrap metal. The front is completely embedded in the facade. The two friends were trapped inside the vehicle and there was no air bag to protect them.

Phoenix police and an ambulance was immediately summoned Samu at the scene of the tragedy. At the arrival of the emergency, the toll was heavy. The guard and the occupants of the car were already dead. Furthermore, no way to remove the bodies of the victims of the cabin. It took the intervention of firefighters to extricate the car. The fire fighters used a saw.

The remains were sent to the morgue to be autopsied Candos. These are Drs Maxwell and Prem Monvoisin Shaman, coroners who are responsible for the autopsy. The death of George Thomas and Jean Pascal Woomed is attributed to multiple injuries, while the passenger, Jean Olivier Lamy died of "cranial cerebral injury." Samples were performed to determine whether there was alcohol.

The victims' families are inconsolable. Seeta Devi Bhoyjoo, 47, wife of forty, not stop crying all the tears from his body. "My husband was a mason, two weeks ago, there was no work and he looked tired. His employer told him to watch a marquee in St. Paul. For three days, he has monitored, now it is gone forever ... "And to add a voice knotted with grief:" I never see him again. "

Among the relatives of Jean Olivier Lamy, attempting to keep up. Jean-Claude Lamy, 68, father of a young computer enthusiast, has learned the terrible news that 8 to 30 pm Sunday.

"He munched life to the fullest. Saturday, he went to a party. Colleagues, but also her cousins went to Flic-en-Flac. He rarely drank. " When Olivier left the house on Saturday, sixties was far from imagining that he saw his eldest living for the last time.

On November 7, the young man had blown his 29 candles. "We had to take a catamaran Sunday. It was my gift, alas, fate has decided otherwise, "laments Jean-Claude. "His sister had left the country a few days ago, she is unable to attend his funeral," says one close.

In the family Woomed Eau Coulee, time stopped. Sister Jean Pascal barely hide her sadness. "It's been two months since my brother took employment as an accountant in the firm. On Saturday, he went to a party with his new colleagues, "she recounts. Jean Pascal leaves behind a wife and twins aged 6. His funeral as well as those of his friend will be held Monday.

Two died Saturday

Saturday, Solitude, Azimod Louis Wilson, 62, died, the victim of a road accident. It was in the morning that the tragedy occurred. Its all-terrain collided with a van with 15 seats. Seriously injured the driver of the suv was taken to SSRN hospital at Pamplemousses. He passed away shortly after. Other people on board the van were injured in the accident. Three of them were admitted. The road also had reason to Devanand Bangaroo, aged 53.

The body of the forties was found with his motorcycle Tyack, in the early hours Saturday. He was lying in a pool of blood in a ditch near a cane field. Informed of the situation, the officers from the Rivière-des-Eels went there. The death of the resident Batimarais was attributed to a broken neck. The police launched an investigation to shed light on the circumstances of this tragedy.