News Desk : dhakamirror.com
Three Bangladeshi people from the same family, visiting Australia, were killed in a car crash in Canberra on Sunday, reported The Daily Mail.
A red Toyota hatchback crashed with a white Toyota van at a notorious black spot on Canberra’s western suburbs, forcing emergency personnel to cut the vehicle into parts in order to free the family on Sunday (16 October).
The deceased are Shahidul Islam, 61, of Baluchar Union of Sirajdikhan Upazila, his wife Razia Sultana ,54, and their son Roni, 21.
The driver, Rashed, aged in his 20s, was rushed to Canberra Hospital where he remains in the ICU in a critical condition.
Police confirmed that the three who died at the scene on Coppins Crossing Road were visiting Australia on tourist visas, said the report.
“The point at which the collision occurred, the signage is ambiguous, it’s pretty much a construction track being used almost as an arterial road,” Weston Creek Community Council’s Bill Gremmel told Australian media.
“It goes from quite a wide two-lane road [John Gorton Drive] down to a narrow, single-lane each way road [Coppins Crossing Road] very quickly and it’s on the downhill,” he continued.
Police investigations into the crash continue, said the report, adding that the spot where the accident happened is a “known crash spot”.
The eldest son of the family, Anwar Zahid, an Australian expatriate, is a doctor.
His father Shahidul Islam was a retired fisheries officer in Bangladesh and his mother Razia Sultana, was a retired primary school teacher.
