“My daughter was discharged this afternoon, she’s at home with a psychologist. She’s in a terrible psychological state, she comes into the house and screams. She can’t recover.” These are the words of the 17-year-old’s father, after the tragedy with the car accident and the 21-year-old dead in Agrinio. About the circumstances of the car accident, he said that his daughter kept telling him that a car was coming toward them and that the 21-year-old was “hitting the brakes.” As the 17-year-old’s father explains to Live News on Mega, his daughter was saved because, as he says, she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was thus ejected from the car window before the IX was engulfed in flames within minutes.
“My daughter wasn’t wearing a seatbelt because she had intestinal colic, she was doubled over in the seat, had the window open so air could hit her. As soon as the car started swerving, she was thrown out of the car. From the spins the car made, she was thrown out and that’s what saved her, traffic police told us too. If she had stayed in the car, my daughter would have burned inside the car. She was ejected through the window, luckily she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and the window was open. She truly had a guardian angel,” the 17-year-old’s father, who was discharged from the hospital, explained specifically.
“Should I tell you now that she’s screaming? She saw her boyfriend burning before her eyes. Hearing the boy shout ‘help, get me out, I’m burning.’ Seeing it all. The boy was still alive inside the car, trying to unbuckle his seatbelt. His feet were trapped under the pedals, the brakes from what the fire department told us, shouting ‘help, help, I’m burning,'” the 17-year-old’s father said about the dramatic moments of the accident.
Agrinio car accident: The involvement of a third vehicle
“There was a third car and it was confirmed by Agrinio traffic police, because the braking that occurred was on the boy’s lane and it appears the braking wasn’t in the opposite traffic flow. So something entered the boy’s lane and braked. He didn’t do anything wrong,” the 17-year-old’s father added.
Tragic figures are the parents of 21-year-old Thanasis who work at the hospital where their son’s body was brought for identification.
“We arrived at the hospital and there, because all our colleagues wouldn’t let us do anything, they finally told us he wasn’t in a condition for us to even see him. My son was burned beyond recognition. They didn’t tell me at first, they told me he was injured. That there was a crash,” the victim’s father had said.
The chronology of the tragedy
It was shortly before midnight on Saturday, when the young couple was driving on the Antirrio-Ioannina National Road when suddenly, unknown how, they collided head-on with a white van.
Then the 21-year-old’s car hit the metal barriers, overturned and was engulfed in flames.
Four fire trucks arrived at the scene as well as the 17-year-old’s parents. The 21-year-old was unfortunately found dead inside the wreckage.
The 30-year-old van driver and 27-year-old passenger were taken to the hospital with minor injuries to receive first aid.
Agrinio Traffic Police are investigating the causes of the accident.
