While a tribute is organized in memory of the victims, tongues loosen and hopes are formulated.
“Death Road”, an exaggerated term, “usurped” for the Department and specifically the county House of sustainable management. Responsible for maintenance of the RD231, they point to further the “errors of conduct” of users and call for their wear a safety vest and compliance with the rules of the road.
Simply yet to type the name of the road into a search engine to find that the axis has very bad press and cumulative fatalities. The words of the Department are bound relatives of various victims who lost their lives in different places of this long winding axis. They are called Antoine… Only on the year that just ended.
“And we do not know half of the accidents that have occurred on this road, as there were many others, fatal or not,” says the family of Anis, another victim of accident on the county in 2014. The girl, she has not died on that road. But she and her family had their daily switch as brutally as for others. Anis has now lost any form of autonomy. Her parents hope that she will one day a minimum of mobility and will contact them again. They engaged in a daily struggle for that.
Families waiting
They share another hope: that work be undertaken to secure the RD231. “We just wish there are more accidents”, begs Evelyn’s mother Anis, pointing the dangerousness of the county. “We could do if only shave a little embankments to improve visibility in bends, for example”, says the father of Anis.
An investigation is ongoing to determine the causes of this accident. “We will carry complaint in all cases. The results of the expertise simply determine how we will. But for now, I’m waiting to know if my son well respected speed limits and all indications are that it did “spear dad, too convinced of the accident-prone nature of the road. He added: “Myself, I never borrowed this road; I walked around by the A16.”
For him, there is an obvious solution to secure the road: lowering the speed limit. The man does not understand why it remains so high (90 and 70 km / h) and changes several times over a few kilometers. It also points to the lack of visibility in different places. And on the very spot where his son died, he added, “this junction should have been abolished long ago”. It’s near the same intersection Antoine Boniface, volunteer firefighter, was killed a year ago. He was on foot and climbed the RD231 at night without reflective vest. Driving at risk, but that does not resolve Nicolas Devein, his former colleague who lives a few hundred meters from the scene of the accident, to draw a line under what happened.
The white walking is above all a tribute, but it also offers hope of some relatives of victims. Not all want one thing: more security.
White On October 16, at 9:30 am at the school Ellingham. The procession will join the cross street of Angouleme. Participants must bring a yellow vest.