2023-12-18 16:49:00
As reported in our paper and digital editions, on Sunday, around 10:20 a.m., a lady who was walking her dog was violently hit by a car traveling at high speed while she was crossing a pedestrian crossing on Albert Street, in Kain , not far from the Epi d’or bakery.
The impact was very violent and the lady was thrown several meters from the point of impact, around twenty according to our journalist who went to the scene.
Taken to hospital in serious condition; we learned this Monday that the victim did not survive his injuries.
This accident and its dramatic consequences aroused a lot of anger among the mayor of Tournai who, this Monday morning, as part of the presentation of the new municipal budget, specifically mentioned the investments to be made in terms of security.
”When you go there and you see that, just before, there is an intersection with a right priority and an obligation to slow down; that you have following a pedestrian crossing where you have to stop when a pedestrian is there; that the person was ejected several meters from the impact. I am sorry, but in such cases, when people use their vehicle as a weapon, we are not talking regarding an accident but regarding assassination,” declared the Tournaisian chief magistrate.
Comments that he confirmed when we spoke to him on the phone this Monday followingnoon.
We also learned this Monday evening from the Tournai public prosecutor’s office that the author – who fled during the incident – was identified and that an investigation was opened once morest him.
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