Victim of a frontal collision, testified: The toll is heavy. There waits us all a long period of rehabilitation

Blankenberge Of the five victims of the accident on the Brugse Steenweg in Blankenberge Friday night there are still three injured in the hospital. Two of them were complex fractures, and there are very. They are in an artificial coma held. Viviane Swaenepoel (66) from Blankenberge is according to the police still in danger. For Ernst Durwen (67) is the risk of death is provisionally gone.

Gerda Decoster (66) from Blankenberge was sitting in the back in the Peugeot Partner with four occupants. The car was around 18.30 frontal hit by a light truck. “We were on our way to a restaurant in Damme. What exactly happened, I can't say. I have a black-out,” testified Gerda from her hospital bed. They ran light injuries, but just need to stay in the hospital.

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and Her partner, Ernst Durwen (67) from Germany is in a worse state, he sat in the front on the passenger seat. “It has lasted hours for the emergency services, Ernst out of the car got. He has multiple complex fractures incurred and is operated. They keep him in artificial coma because he's different to a lot of pain would have”, Gerda further. The man is wrong even in critical condition, but that danger is now gone. “I can only hope that Ernst and Viviane will soon heal, but the physical toll is heavy and the rehabilitation will certainly take a long time”, bears witness to Gerda.

Emergency surgery

Viviane Swaenepoel (66) from Blankenberge sat on the back seat next to her friend Gerda. Viviane worked in the restaurant Seagull in Blankenberge, the case of Gerda that a few years ago has a new project. Viviane is according to the police still in danger. They also ran a lot of complex fractions, is in artificial coma and taken, meanwhile, has an emergency behind the back.