Man dies in car crash after suffering from a heart attack at wheel
A MAN was killed in a high speed crash in Gazimağusa on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at the wheel.
Ali Barışer, 62, who was known to have a heart condition, went off a road in the town at “extreme speed” at around 5.25pm.
His car, said to have been travelling at more than 100kph, smashed into kerbstones and a low concrete wall and flew up in the air before landing on top of a parked car belonging to Yasin Tektaş.
The incident took place at the intersection of Abant Sokak and Sincan Sokak in the former Social Housing District, police said.
Paramedics and firefighters were dispatched to the scene and struggled to extract Mr Barışer’s body from the wreckage.
He was taken to Lefkoşa Dr Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital’s morgue where an autopsy was performed to determine his exact cause of death.
The results of the postmortem revealed that Mr Barışer died of both “a heart attack before the accident, and from internal bleeding and broken chest and rib bones related to the traffic accident that took place after the heart attack”. Mr Barışer was buried at Gazimağusa Cemetery on Thursday.
Mr Tektaş expressed his sadness about the incident, while his wife said that she had left a nearby apartment to get into the vehicle Mr Barışer’s car fell on top of.
“I’m very sad,” she said. “I was also very scared. I was sorry about his death, not the damage. . . Goods are replaceable but a human life is not.
“I came to air out a friend’s apartment . . . When I got outside, I saw a car on top of mine.
“I screamed as soon as I saw it. I was scared. If I had left the apartment a minute earlier, I would have gotten into the car. The vehicle would have fallen onto my car while I was in it. May God grant patience to the family of the deceased.”