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'No tears would come'
20/02/2008 22:39 - (SA)
Hilda Fourie, Beeld
Pretoria - Désirée-Simone van Nieuwenhuizen's room is still exactly the way it was. The radio is playing. Her dictionaries and textbooks lie scattered on her bed, between towels and a hairbrush.
But, Désirée-Simone, 21, of The Reeds in Centurion, isn't there any more. On Saturday morning, she was involved in a fatal accident after the Friday-night birthday party of her friend, 22-year-old Chirése Viljoen.
Chirése was the last person who spoke to Désirée-Simone, before she died early on Saturday.
The driver of the car, 23-year-old Hendry Coetzer, died later that day.
The three were travelling in a southerly direction about 00:30 when they were involved in an accident near the Botha Avenue exit on the N1 freeway in Pretoria.
The other car, coming from the north, apparently drove over the verge dividing the lanes and straight into their car, on the right-hand side.
Désirée-Simone and her friends were returning from a visit to Rhapsody's, opposite the Menlyn shopping centre in Pretoria east.
'A parent never wants to get that call'
Her mom, Susan, says a phone call to tell you that your child has been in an accident, is a call you never want to receive.
When she and her husband, Nic, got to the accident, their daughter's body had already been covered.
"Chirése's mother phoned us about 01:00 to tell us about the crash. A short while later, a tow-truck man called to tell us he thought we should come," she said.
"I wanted to go off my head, because I could see it was my child lying there. I couldn't cry, because no tears would come out. I was so anxious I felt as if I could die."
Désirée-Simone was a fourth-year student at Tshwane University of Technology, where she was studying in medical technology.
Her brother Marcel, 19, says he'll miss Saturday afternoons the most.
"Nobody in Nadia Street could shout as loudly as her for the Blue Bulls."
Besides her parents and brother, Désirée-Simone also leaves a younger sister, 15-year-old Lydia.
- Beeld
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