Tuesday, September 8, 2009: 4 dead and 45 seriously injured
The collision between a truck providing transport sugar to Les Salines and buses of the National Transport Corporation (NTC), crowded with passengers heading to Port Louis on Tuesday morning September 8, 2009 had four died on the spot and 45 injured. The victims of this accident are keeping Jonathan (18), Mohun Khundun (28 years), Jugmohun Beeharry (51 years) and Rajkarransing Ramtohul (61).
The driver of the truck with two trailers sugar Arthémidor Louis, said it had everything to avoid hitting repeatedly buses NTC had doubled up to Sorèze. His vehicle became uncontrollable, with the speed caused by the slope of Sorèze had dragged the bus before spill with all its cargo to shift ...
Saturday, March 31, 2012: two dead and six wounded
57 weeks ago, Luke Clifford Lascarie (44), truck driver, and Jerry Augustine, 19 years and assistant driver were killed in mid-day in an accident the road occurred in turn Sorèze. Six other passengers in other vehicles involved in this drama are injured and had to be treated. Some were two young children.
The cause of the accident: the truck's brakes registered 3969 ZT 02 who dropped and that, since the roundabout in New France. The vehicle carrying a cargo of chilled to the free port chickens were able to avoid a bus full of passengers in his mad rush to approach this shift.
The truck rolled over several times on the highway hitting a van and a car master before stopping while construction of road were underway. Employees of the Indian Oil petrol station, who were on duty that day, still remember the tragic circumstances of this accident. The opposition MP, Raffick Sorefan, had not failed to note in this regard that "the responsibility of the Minister Bachoo is engaged in the accident because he had been warned of the risk that dangerous turn."
Friday, March 3, 2013: 10 dead and 44 injured
in the accident turn Sorèze died yesterday morning is the deadliest in the series. The balance sheet is extremely heavy: 10 dead and 44 wounded. The bus driver of the National Transport Corporation (NTC), Ganesh Deepchand, aged 50, was killed instantly. The recipient of the bus Vishamitr Bundhoo, it has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital Jeetoo due to the severity of his injuries.
Again, turn Sorèze has not forgiven trouble mechanical or defective brakes of the bus. Pending the conclusion of the police investigation, the road safety experts do not hesitate to "apportion the blame" between the mechanical problems of the bus BlueLine of the NTC and the controversial design of this stretch of highway. They argue that in those moments of panic, the driver of the NTC had put the odds on his side to avoid the worst, but was betrayed by the physical characteristics of the turn of death.
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