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Friday, July 11, 2025

Roberts 'saddened' after backseat passenger dies days after accident

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Anna-Lisa Paul
17 days ago
20250624
Minister in the Ministry of Housing Anil Roberts.

Minister in the Ministry of Housing Anil Roberts.

OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Anil Roberts says he is sad­dened by re­ports that a man who was in­jured in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in which he had been in­volved on Sat­ur­day, had died af­ter spend­ing two days at hos­pi­tal.

In a brief re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia even as he ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the vic­tim’s fam­i­ly and friends dur­ing his Sen­ate con­tri­bu­tion, Roberts agreed it was “ex­treme­ly” sad that the vic­tim iden­ti­fied on­ly as Kern al­so known as Ma­trix of El So­cor­ro South had passed.

He urged mo­torists to ex­er­cise “more care and con­sid­er­a­tion,” when tra­vers­ing the na­tion’s roads.

Roberts was pro­ceed­ing west along the Beetham High­way around 5.23 am on June 21, when his car was broad­sided, re­sult­ing in him crash­ing in­to the me­di­an.

Sec­onds lat­er, an­oth­er ve­hi­cle crashed in­to Roberts’ car. In a so­cial me­dia post hours af­ter the ac­ci­dent, Roberts re­count­ed brac­ing for the im­pact as he watched the car speed­ing to­wards him.

While the min­is­ter walked away with mi­nor bruis­es, the vic­tim, who was seat­ed in the back seat of the car that ran in­to Roberts’s ve­hi­cle – suf­fered more se­vere in­juries and spent the time hos­pi­talised un­til his pass­ing yes­ter­day.

Scores of peo­ple of­fered con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of the man.

An­tho­ny Je­re­mi­ah post­ed, “That’s why we need De­mer­it to take them off the na­tion's road.”


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