Impala Park CPF patroller Jacques Day dies in accident
Impala Park CPF member Jacques Day and his fiance Jacqueline Roos died In the early hours of this morning, June 7 after their car hit a lamppost and exploded.
Chairperson for the Sector One Boksburg North CPF, Denise Curry, confirmed this to the Benoni City Times this morning.
She said Day was travelling with his partner, Jacqueline Roos.
They were involved in an accident on the corner of Celia Nestadt Road and Stokroos Street.
“It is understood the driver lost control of the vehicle, hit a lamp pole, rolled and exploded,” said ER24 spokesperson Chitra Bodasing.
“When ER24 paramedics arrived on scene they found the vehicle engulfed in flames.
“Fire and rescue services extinguished the fire.”
“Unfortunately there was nothing paramedics could do for the people in the vehicle.”
Both died in the accident.
Curry said Day has been a member of the CPF for a year and a half and was extremely committed to the organisation.
“He was awesome, his heart was in it (the CPF),” said the emotional Curry.
“He was committed; nothing was ever too big or too small for him. His heart was in it (the CPF), he was such a good guy.”
A witness to the accident, Gillian Lindsay, said she was driving behind Day along Celia Nestadt Road, from the Great North Road direction.
She told the City Times the vehicle was driving in front of her in the middle of the road, when the car veered to the left and hit a kerb.
She said the vehicle rolled once and skidded to the right hand side of the road, before Stokroos Street.
Lindsay said the car almost immediately caught fire and exploded within a minute after catching fire.
She said there were several explosions.
Lindsay said a man who also witnessed the accident got out of his car, walked to the passenger side of the burning car, got back into his vehicle and drove off.
When he passed Lindsay, he told her to call emergency services.
Curry said CPF members from as far afield as Germiston will this afternoon hold a procession to honour Day.
They will converge on the scene of the accident where they will lay flowers and a cross.
More to follow.
