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Volgens Rupert het sy seuntjie Vrydag (24 Oktober) sy vyfde verjaarsdag gevier. Hulle het ‘n partytjie vir die volgende dag beplan en baie familielede was op pad na die plaas om die dag saam met hulle deur te bring. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tom en Ansie is die oggend voor die partytjie weg van die plaas af om ‘n geskenk in die Paarl te gaan koop. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die botsing het by die ingang na Arra gebeur toe hulle op pad terug was.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ek was bo by Arra en ek het [‘n foto van] die ongelukstoneel en my ouers se motor gesien wat op die WhatsApp-groep van die plaaswag deurgekom het. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Dis hoe ek geweet het my ma-hulle was in ‘n ongeluk. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ek is baie seer. My ma en my pa het erg seergekry in die ongeluk. My pa is op slag dood, maar nie my ma nie. Sy is oorlede toe paramedici haar uit die motor haal. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ek is die Here dankbaar dat Hy hulle saam kon kom haal het, want ek dink nie hulle sou sonder mekaar kon leef nie. Dit is eintlik ‘n wonderwerk.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy onthou hoe hulpeloos hy gevoel het toe hy by die toneel opdaag, vertel Rupert.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ek is ook ‘n first responder, maar die manier hoe ek daar reageer het, kon ek nie glo nie. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ek het op my knie\u00eb neergeval en dit was so onwerklik om my pa en ma in daai situasie te sien.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Familie wat na die plaas op pad was, het in die verkeersopeenhoping weens die ongelukstoneel in die verkeer vasgeval.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“My seuntjie se verjaarsdaggeskenk was nog toegedraai in die motor toe ons dit uitgehaal het. Oupa en ouma het vir hom gaan Boerboel-klere koop. Dit was baie spesiaal.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rupert s\u00ea met al die medelye wat in- stroom, besef hy sy ouers se harte was altyd net oop vir ander mense.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Soveel mense het na hulle opgekyk en was lief vir hulle en die verandering wat hulle in ander mense se lewe gebring het.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die bejaarde egpaar word oorleef deur nog ‘n seun, Marnus Rossouw, en ‘n dogter, Annerien Rossouw, asook vier kleinkinders.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ek wil die mediese personeel wat op die toneel was, bedank vir hul liefde, hul omgee en die hulp wat hulle vir ons en ons gesin verleen het,” s\u00ea Rupert toe hy weer in trane uitbars. “Ons kon gevoel het hoe die Here op die toneel gewerk het en dat ons rus en vrede het. Dit is die belangrikste. Ons is nie kwaad nie. Ons het geen woede nie. Ons besef dit was ‘n ongeluk en ons hoop almal wat die botsing sien gebeur het, hul sake met die Here regmaak en besef dat die tyd bitter kort is. As dit is wat my ma en pa se legacy kan wees \u2013 om mense na Jesus toe te lei \u2013 laat dit so wees.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tom en Ansie word volgende Saterdag (8 November) ter ruste gel\u00ea. Die begrafnis word dan gehou om familie van oor die land heen kans te gee om na Kaapstad te reis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022\u2009AO Christiaan Paulse van die Klapmuts-polisie het die botsing, waarby vier voertuie betrokke was, bevestig. Hy s\u00ea dit het net n\u00e1 14:00 gebeur.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“‘n Ander voertuig het van agter af teen die voertuig waarin die twee oorledenes gery het, vasgery. Met die impak is die bejaardes se voertuig vorentoe geslinger en dit het ‘n ander voertuig getref, wat in die teenoorgestelde rigting aangery gekom het. Daardie voertuig het toe op sy beurt n\u00f3g ‘n ander voertuig getref, wat ook in die teenoorgestelde rigting gery het.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paulse s\u00ea die insittendes van die ander voertuie het ligte beserings opgedoen. ‘n Klagte van strafbare manslag word deur die Klapmuts-polisie ondersoek.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022\u2009In nog ‘n motorongeluk Sondagaand (26 Oktober) het drie mense ernstige beserings opgedoen toe ‘n bakkie en ‘n kleiner motor by die aansluiting van die R45 en die Lady Loch-pad buite Wellington gebots het.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dit was veronderstel om Saterdag (25 Oktober) ‘n gesellige familiebyeenkoms te wees om die verjaarsdag van Thomas en Anne-Mari\u00e9 Rossouw se kleinkind te vier. 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