Erik and Miguel face together one of the worst things a parent can face: Her children were admitted to intensive care after being in a car accident. Iván, 17, and his girlfriend Sonia, 16, were involved in a serious accident while they were traveling together on an electric scooter and the driver of a van brutally ran them over before fleeing. It all happened in the early hours of this Sunday.
“He left them lying on the road like they were dogs.“, denounce Erik, Iván’s father, and Miguel, Sonia’s father, devastated. “They were bleeding to death on the asphalt.” The two heads of the family agree to give an exclusive interview to EL ESPAÑOL and provide a picture of their children. minors, “to ask for the collaboration of citizens”, to help the local police of Murcia locate the driver who fled after taking this couple of teenagers as a couple.
– What does the suspect vehicle look like?
– Erik and Miguel: It’s a van, model Peugeot Partner, white, because Several neighbors saw her flee the scene and she left remnants of headlights, a piece of bumper and part of the crankcase on the road where some of the vehicle’s serial numbers are visible. We want this driver arrested because he does not deserve to be free. He is a soulless person who hit them and ran away, destroying their lives. We are asking for help to locate him. He is a madman: he knocked down two children.
Iván and Sonia have been dating for two years, they met on Saturday nightto go for a walk before going to dinner at his son’s parents’ house, ending the evening with a movie. It was a “quiet plan” – as teenagers often say – to spend the last weekend of August together. “Iván was going to take his girlfriend home on the electric scooter, as he has done on other occasions,” says Erik, a 33-year-old gardener by profession and father of a large and devastated family. “My son, Ivan, is the eldest of a family of six brothers.”
Interview with Erik and Miguel, parents of the crushed children
The journey that the two miners had to make was just 4 kilometers from Rincón de Beniscornia to La Albatalía: two districts of the beautiful Segura orchard that the Murcian capital cherishes. Iván placed his girlfriend, Sonia, between his body and the handlebars, before taking the electric scooter along Avenida de la Ñora, which has two lanes authorized for each direction of traffic.
“I spoke to my daughter at a quarter past one in the morning to see if they had already left for my house and she said yes,” says Miguel, Sonia’s father. “I stayed up waiting for her, but when she didn’t get through to her WhatsApps, I called her phone and she turned it off. Then I called Iván and a policeman came to get me and explained what had happened. Imagine how I was: I still can’t believe what happened. It’s a nightmare to see my daughter like this: is in an induced coma“.
Erik and Miguel attend to the journalist from EL ESPAÑOL at the door of the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in Murcia, where 24 hours add up without sleeping a winkwaiting for every medical report, and praying for their children while their hearts burn faster than the cigarettes they smoke, trying unsuccessfully to ease their anxiety.
– What is your son’s medical report?
-Erik: He is admitted to the intensive care unit. They just took him out of the operating room. The doctors operated on Ivan to remove a piece of his skull to reduce the pressure on his brain. We don’t know if there will be any consequences. We have to wait.
-And how is your daughter?
-Miguel: His face is disfigured. Sonia has her whole body covered from her feet. He is in intensive care. We don’t know if they will have to operate as well because they are monitoring his cranial pressure.
– What do you know about the accident?
-Miguel: They had just passed the traffic light to leave Rincón de Beniscornia and everything happened when they took an open bend and arrived on a straight line. Whoever did this was not calm because it is a wide road that allows time to avoid another vehicle, the bend is wide and there is visibility because there are street lights. In addition, the speed limit is 30 kilometers per hour because it is a residential area. I suspect that the van fled in the direction of Murcia after hitting the scooter from behind.
-Erik: The local police told me it was a head-on collision, but that doesn’t match my opinion. I went to the scene of the accident and I think the van hit them from behind: it dragged them for 20 meters, because Iván put Sonia in the front of the cart. I know that my son was riding close to the sidewalk and that the van ran over him because the crankcase left a black trail of oil, close to the sidewalk, and a pool of blood. Also, there are no brake marks and my son and daughter-in-law’s shoes were far from the scooter.
Iván, 17, was driving his girlfriend Sonia, 16, home on an electric scooter.
Erik and Miguel’s Suspicions They correspond to the content of a video made by a neighbor telling how this picture-perfect wedding couple was crushed. “They are both students at the Miguel de Cervantes Institute. Iván is in his fourth year at ESO because he wants to be a computer engineer and Sonia is in her first year of high school because she would like to become a teacher,” her parents emphasize. “All the neighbors are waiting, as well as the local police: we hope they will locate the driver of the van soon.”
At present, a neighbor with security cameras on the front of his house has already contacted the local police because could have registered the Peugeot Partner, white, after committing the accident.
Local police have opened an investigation to locate the van and determine in which direction it was traveling.as well as its speed and whether it braked, to determine if it has collided head-on or by impact with the personal mobility vehicle (VMP). Iván and Sonia did not comply with the municipal mobility ordinance of Murcia, because does not allow more than one occupant per scooter (VMP), but The most serious behavior was that of the van driver. because he failed in his duty to help two seriously injured young people.
In fact, comments from outraged residents of Rincón de Beniscornia continue to circulate on social networks, calling for collaboration to track down the alleged perpetrator of the attack on this couple who were traveling on an electric scooter, as thousands of young people do every day. day. all over the country. “You’re a bastard whoever you are! You left two children abandoned after dragging them all those meters! You left them in a coma! You have committed a crime! What anger! What pain!…
The teenagers rushed, in an image provided by their parents, Erik and Miguel, this Sunday, to the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in Murcia.
In an induced coma
Erik cannot forget the scene he experienced at one in the morning and twenty-two minutes that Sunday, when he arrived at Avenida de la Ñora: “I know that my son, Iván, tried to get up because I saw the handprint, but he couldn’t because he received a blow to the head and lost consciousness. A 112 spokesman confirms that the two minors, They were urgently admitted to La Arrixaca, with a traumatic brain injury.
“They came to the hospital because a neighbor heard the explosion, came out of his house, saw the children lying on the ground and took care of calling an ambulance,” Miguel emphasizes. “Both They had to pierce their lungs because they couldn’t breathe.“. The proof is that they now remain in an artificial coma in the intensive care unit of La Arrixaca.
“It was a journey of about three kilometers that they made every day,” Erik and Miguel repeat. “In that place, there are street lights, the skateboard has reflectors and at that time there is no traffic: The driver did not see them because there is no trace of an attempt to brake. We are asking for help from neighbors to locate this van.”
After 9pm this Sunday, this newspaper was able to confirm that the The Local Police of Murcia has located the famous Peugeot Partner and proceeded to arrest his driver. “Let’s hope that when the driver is arrested, the full weight of justice will fall on him.”
