:-( very Sad and Tragic article on news24.
Pretoria – Major Estelle de Bruyn, 35 of army headquarters in Pretoria decided to quit cycling after she was hit by a truck in January. On Sunday morning, her husband was killed in a cycling accident. She had told her husband Gerhard, 39, that morning that she had been considering taking up cycling again. A few hours later, she found him next to the road outside Rayton after he had been hit by a car which had been overtaking another car. De Bruyn and a friend, Anke Zenker, 32, had cycled to Cullinan to get some exercise. Major De Bruyn met them in Cullinan for coffee. On the safest part of the road On their way back, at around 12:00, she drove behind them, but stopped in Rayton to buy water. "They still cycled past me," she said tearfully on Monday. "They were cycling behind each other on the shoulder of the road. They were on the safest part of the road that they could be. I had only just set off again, when I saw them lying in the road. I screamed, because I knew it was my husband. "I could see he was very badly hurt. When I touched him, I could feel that all his ribs were broken. Never in my life have I prayed so much." Police spokesperson Johannes Jaftha said a woman had allegedly overtaken another car. When she was back in her lane, she had struck De Bruyn and Zenker. Apparently she didn't see them. Zenker was taken by helicopter to the Netcare Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. Her father, Jochen Zenker, said she was still under strong sedation. De Bruyn was taken to the Wilgers hospital in Pretoria. He was later transferred to 1 Military Hospital in Thaba Tshwane where he died from his injuries at about 16:00. He had sustained serious head injuries, and his ribs, right shoulder and right elbow were broken. Devastated Just after her own accident in January on the R21 highway in Pretoria, his wife resolved never to climb on a bicycle again. On Monday she had to have stitches removed from her hand, after needing an operation due to having spent four months on crutches. "I'll never cycle again. On that morning I told him to be careful about 30 times," she said. "His last hug was not enough. I love him so much." Her husband ran his own flooring business. - Beeld --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
