Father holds vigil for daughter who was struck, killed by truck in Montreal – Montreal | 24CA News
The quantity 22 has a brand new significance for Cuma Caya, who lives in Montreal’s Saint-Michel neighbourhood.
That determine isn’t simply the age of his daughter Dilan Caya. It additionally represents the day she died, June twenty second, in addition to the place she handed away — twenty second Avenue.
“How did she die?” he requested rhetorically, explaining that he nonetheless doesn’t totally perceive why.
Dilan was struck by a truck as she was crossing twenty second Avenue on the intersection with Bélair Street in Saint-Michel.
“The truck turned here,” he defined, pointing to the crosswalk on the intersection, “and struck her on the 5th yellow line.”
So far the motive force is going through no fees and Caya says he can’t get solutions from police. Every day because the accident the daddy has saved vigil on the intersection.
“Usually I’m here alone but sometimes with my son,” he advised Global News. “Yesterday I was here all day until 11 at night.”
People who dwell within the space sympathize with him, and people like Sofiane Mezghiche, whose house is subsequent to the intersection, commonly cease by to supply help
“He stays all day here, sometimes crying, screaming,” he identified. “He needs closure. He hasn’t been able to grieve.”
Mezghiche stated individuals have been warning in regards to the intersection for a very long time and that he’s spoken to a borough consultant twice about it.
“I told him it’s very dangerous and I know in the future there’s going to be an accident here, and this is what happened,” he stated.
According to him, because the closure of Pie IX Boulevard north for building, one avenue east of twenty second Avenue, massive vans now use twenty second.
There aren’t any cease indicators on the crossing with Bélair however because the accident, authorities put in a brief cease signal at twenty first Avenue, a number of metres away. Mezghiche isn’t certain what may be carried out to make the intersection safer however stresses that it may well’t stay like this.
In an announcement, the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension has expressed its condolences to the Caya household and acknowledged that residents have lengthy pointed to street security issues within the space. They embody lack of visibility because of parked autos, the rise in site visitors because the begin of labor on the Pie-IX pedestrian tunnel and the will for cease indicators.
The borough level to greater than 20 security enhancements carried out within the Bélair Street sector through the years, together with a brief cease signal at twenty first Avenue and Bélair. However the assertion didn’t say what will likely be carried out on the intersection with twenty second Avenue.
A Montreal police spokesperson was unable to touch upon the accident, saying that the particular person accountable for the investigation is away for the following few days.
Caya vows to proceed his vigil till he will get the solutions he desires.
