The Universal / Sandon family cannot take another blow. Osmany Sandón Jose Diaz died on Wednesday night in a traffic accident that occurred on the road cordiality, opposite El Pozón. Yesterday, at 7 am, the family learned of the accident and not yet assimilated the situation when another unfortunate fact hit them. And in what way. Knowing that his father had died, Osmany’s daughter who lived with him in New Cartagena barrio sector Pozón entered into crisis. The youngest was 3 months pregnant and gestating in her womb twins. After upset with the news, he was taken to a medical center, but the two creatures died. She was saved.
Osmany was known that was 50 and working as a plasterer. On Wednesday, at 7:30 pm, he is riding his bicycle by way cordiality, against the gazebo that is after the Pozón. At that point, a bus company Cootransurb of UAQ-830 plates, which would in direction Cartagena-Barranquilla, hit him. A hypothesis handled by the police reveals that the darkness of the sector, the mini-bus driver did not see the cyclist, who was not wearing a reflective vest.
Osmany suffered multiple fractures and wounds, and was taken by ambulance to the General Clinic Caribbean, where he was pronounced dead. “From accident not know anything. Only until today -ayer- in the morning, we found out he was dead because they called a sister to tell. We went to Legal Medicine and found that the body was there,” said Dabeiba Sandón Diaz, sister deceased.
Minister of Transport and Telecommunications answer questions about use of reflective vest
Do motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians have to wear the vest? It was one of the questions you answered Andrés Gómez-Lobo in DNA testing.
The Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Andrés Gómez-Lobo spoke with Andrea and Jose Antonio Neme Arístegui on the use of reflective vest, the possession in the car is compulsory from the first of January this 2016 that is just beginning.
The head of the portfolio answered some of the questions that have resonated more recent days: Why yellow reflective clothing?”The reason for that is because it is a color that is very visible day” and “night, what you see are the retroreflective bands have,” said Gomez-Lobo.
Does the use is mandatory, or only avaialble in the car?
“We must carry a reflective vest as part of the emergency kit, and this vest has to be accessible from inside the cabin of the car,” said the minister, explaining that it is not necessary to take hung in the passenger seat, but carry visible it might be useful to show that the device actually possessed.
Do motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians should use it?
“No, in the current standard, no. Now eachother always recommend that pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, who are particularly vulnerable on the roads use a reflective element and hopefully the safety vest,” he said.