Nineteen-year-old Nathan Victor of Elmshall is the victim of the second fatal traffic accident of the year.
The accident occurred near the Mahaut Market on Saturday, February 4, 2023.
“Nathan was one of four passengers on a Nissan March car which was traveling in northerly direction on the E.O Leblanc Highway in Mahaut and driven at the time by Joshua Timothy, male 20-years-old of Jimmit,” Acting Inspector Fixton Henderson reported.
Furthermore, Henderson said the car collided with the western railing of the bridge near the Mahaut market and was extensively damaged.
He stated that the other occupants of the vehicle, including the driver, received minor injuries, “while Nathan received trauma to the head and face.”
He was transported via ambulance to the Accident and Emergency Department at the DCFH and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
He was subsequently examined and pronounced dead by a medical doctor at about 4:00 AM on Sunday, February 5, 2023.
Victor’s body is being kept at a funeral home pending an autopsy.
Investigations are ongoing.
Meantime, 52-year-old Thomas Dangleben of Grandbay has succumbed to apparent gunshot injuries he sustained on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at about 11:00 PM at Grandbay.
He was a patient at the Alford Ward.
According to Henderson, the victim was examined and pronounced dead by a medical doctor at the Alford Ward at about 6:00 PM on Saturday, February 4, 2023.
Dangleben’s body is being kept at a funeral home pending an autopsy.
Dominica News Online (DNO) extends sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
Do it right for once! Test all the occupants of the vehicle for drugs and alcohol, including the deceased. Alcohol is sold in Dominica to anyone regardless of age. Well again, Dominica is not a country or state. Dominica is a disgraceful piece of land. If your leader cared about you and your children; some drastic measures would be in place to implement safety. But your lidder is keeps throw the bath water with the baby. I still think that people here are very lucky for not have much more fatalities on the roads. Commercial vehicles which were built to travel on four lane highways are being driven on our 26’ one way “highway.” We are either lucky or blessed.
Condolences to the family of Nathan Victor.I understand the young man was such a very respectful wonderful and honest young man.For sure a vehicle can be used as a weapon in the case of the guy who killed the security guy in St.Aroment he is charged with murder.In a traffic accident where someone dies the driver will be charged with causing death by dangerous driving.Usually drivers license is suspended for one year and a fine.No jail time.No license no insurance for driver or vehicle,the driver is a walking dead.
Already too many fatalities for this new year. Sincerest condolences for all who left to moan.
May their families be comforted by the best moments of their lives during their sojourn on this earthly sphere.
I wonder when stiff penalties are put in place for reckless driving. Because the speed the car was traveling to hit that railing, in a busy community with a narrow street like Mahaut is nothing but reckless.
A vehicle is a weapon, and more people die annually, year in year out, than from guns or cutlass or knives. Cutlass is a tool, but if uses recklessly is a weapon, and surely if two men swinging like mad on govt road police woukd get involved. But every hour of the day on west coast road there is some form of reckless driving and police do nothing about it.
We can morning a death, but mourning counts for nothing when in reality with weeks there will be another road fatality. I’m not calling for it, I just not naive. The man driving the car, will he ever be charged for reckless driving, and even manslaughter? I doubt. Even if he had jammed a pedestrian, many crocodile tears later people would have sympathy and say its ‘an accident oh it could happen to anyone.’
We are a reactive society as well, and honestly i wonder if the CDPF has a traffic department, because those political clowns are asleep. So many (people) mechanics have their work shop on the roadside, and i have seen so many narrow escapes from what could be serious traffic accidents, because of the space occupied by those workshops. This persists until one day a death or more will accrue because of that, and some kind of reaction will ensue by those political police..
This country is just a joke!!