Only a few merchants of the rambla del Carme met by the defiance of the powered scooter. Most, not. Occurred in August and many shops were closed. Manoli, who runs a furniture upholstery, it was one of those that knew him. He explains that, in the neighborhood, the woman was known so loving for his constant walks along the rambla. “Is that always going up and down with his walker. She was a woman well-known,” she laments.
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Manoli account that the event (which did not witness direct) occurred at noon. When they arrived the ambulance, the victim of the accident “did not bleed” and was taken to the hospital right away. According to the woman, the old woman was taking sintrom, an anticoagulant medication. Even so, he enjoyed good health, and proof of this were his walks in the street of Carme, an avenue with a central stretch for pedestrians and two lanes reserved for traffic from side to side.
The accident, he adds, occurred in the central stretch of the paseo to the height of the number 37. Manoli calls for regulating the use of vehicles for personal mobility in order to avoid further accidents of that type. “What has happened to him can happen to anyone. When I see a scooter one of those a lot of speed I get a shudder”.
“I was Always going down the rambla with a walker,” explains the owner of a shop where he works a niece of the victim. “It was a lady much loved for he had known on the market. When it happened, we were very unemployed”, he adds. “It was more, it is true, and even though I had her things, she was perfectly”. One of the shopkeepers of the fruteria la Botiga, a few 1xbet meters from the spot where took place the fatal accident, agrees that the victim was very popular in the neighborhood: “we Always said that we would bury all. Was a client of ours came and went almost daily with his beloved walker. It was small but I was walking very fast, with the device one.”
Viqui, another neighbor, regretted that the zone had not “bike lane painted or anything like that.” “Here we go pedestrians, bicycles, and scooters in the same place. It is an area very wide, and I think all of us. As of August, it was an accident unfortunate but you can’t do much more,” he says. In front of Viqui, and other neighbors complain that the scooters electrical proliferate for “uncontrolled” for the area. “You don’t know where to go and always go by the sidewalk,” explained one of the neighbors who asked to recall the facts on the afternoon of Wednesday, after THE COUNTRY published the information of the outrage.
The seller stamp of the ELEVEN that have the seat on the passage of the Ametllers, in the corner of the calle del Carme, ensures that at the time of the event the neighborhood “was half gas, with almost all the neighbors on vacation.” “I remember it perfectly, was selling at the door of the market of The Flat (just a few meters from the scene of the accident) when I saw the ambulance. Then I explained that the woman fell and hit her head. She was the aunt of one of the slaughter market. What we have felt all many,” he laments.
