Fatal accidents on our roads - between torment and unfinished dreams
Sreeneebus Salim, who had 45 years to blow candles on September 12, died in a road accident Saturday, September 24. He was overthrown by an all-terrain 19.50 on the road Palma, Quatre-Bornes. He was taken to Victoria Hospital by the ambulance, where his death was found, a quarter of an hour later by the nursing staff. As the driver of the vehicle involved, who is 43 years old and lives in Eau Coulee, he was arrested by police in Quatre-Bornes.
Monaf Sreeneebus, 78, is a man overwhelmed. The fate hounds his family since the beginning of the year. After the death of his wife Farida, 66, last January, now he loses his son Salim in tragic circumstances. "I was afraid to tell her the news," said Nazim, 39, her daughter. The latter, who manages a snack in the region, is the first to be rushed to the scene of the tragedy, on hearing the news. "He was still breathing when I arrived," she says. She was taken to hospital in a police vehicle. "Fifteen minutes after my arrival, I was told that Salim had passed away," she says.
In Saint-Antoine
The Black Series of road accidents continued during the week. Tuesday, Mamade Farhaz Emamdee, 25 years old and lives in Goodlands, was killed instantly in an accident at Saint-Antoine. He used to take the bus to go to work in the capital and had decided on Tuesday to take his motorcycle, a 50 cc. He left home about 7.30. Nazim had no idea then that this would be the last trip of his only son.
Mamade Emamdee traveling to Port-Louis, Beau-up to Plateau, Saint-Antoine, he would be stuck behind a car. He would have tried to double and ended up nose to nose with a van traveling in the opposite direction.He tried to avoid it, but the handlebars of his bike hit the car and struck the van. Seriously wounded, he did not survive his injuries. The driver of the van, a resident of Goodlands 41 years old, and that of the car, lives in Grand Gaube, were heard by police in Goodlands. Wednesday, they appeared in court in Mapou. Both were of a provisional charge of manslaughter.
Bhagwanteea Seebaluck, 70, based in Saint-Julien-d'hotman, was hit by a bus of the NTC, Bus Station-Military District, early Monday morning. His family said she went to her doctor. She was rushed to the hospital in Flacq, where the nursing staff was pronounced dead. The driver was tested for alcohol, test was negative.
Some relatives of the victim complained that many drivers do not respect the speed limit at the station. There were many on Monday to visit the home of the seventies to pay their last respects.
