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Witness to four-wheel drive tragedy tells of solo rescue
An Indian scrap dealer was the only other motorist on the road in the remote area of Adhan on Sunday, when he saw a four-wheeler tumbling into the valley.
- By Nasouh Nazzal Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:34 February 19, 2008
Ras Al Khaimah: An Indian scrap dealer was the only other motorist on the road in the remote area of Adhan on Sunday, when he saw a four-wheeler tumbling into the valley.
He stopped his pickup and rushed down the slopes to the valley even before the dust settled. "I saw some people inside and they were still alive," he told police.
"I didn't know what to do. I ran back up and started screaming for some motorist to stop," he said in his statement. "But not a single motorist stopped to help," he said. The scrap dealer then picked up a metal cutter from his pickup and ran back down the valley. He managed to cut free one survivor, a woman, and carried her up to the road. "Only at this point people stopped and started helping," he said. "Someone then called the police."
The man said that there were no other cars around when the accident happened. The family believes that a car suddenly appeared in front of the four-wheeler which made the driver veer away and over the side.
Colonel Nasser Muradad, who heads the Traffic and Licensing Department, said it was the woman driver's fault. The family of the dead feel the accident occurred because of the very bad conditions of the road, which connects Wadi Al Koub to Wadi Al Aym. They complained the road lacks basic traffic signs to guide motorists. They also pointed out that the roads in the remote areas of Adhan and Al Ghail and the surrounding villages have no power.
Four Emirati women of a family died in that accident. The dead included a woman, her daughter and her two daughters-in-law. They have been identified as M.A. in her 50s, her five year-old daughter M.M. and her two daughters-in-law A.A. and M.A.
The eight Emirati family members who live in Wadi Al Koub were on their way to Wadi Al Aym to congratulate a friend on the birth of her baby.
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