Australia: Wife attends to accident scene only to find husband dead in a freak road accident

"She went out to help the lady driver who was yelling and she was trying to calm that lady, going 'Don't worry, it's not your fault, calm down, everything should be fine, I already called an ambulance' but when she glanced, she was shocked to find it was her husband on the floor."

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | AU Desk
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By Amy Noonan | June 3, 2011

[ Ahmadiyya Times had published a story on April 12, 2011 about the family making life and being happy in Morphett Vale. Read original post here: Australia: Making a better future in south ]


She went to help a stranger. It was her husband dying on the road.

A WOMAN who heard a crash outside her house and ran to comfort a hysterical driver screamed out in grief when she discovered the dying victim was her husband.

Anmoila Talpur was confronted with the horrifying scene after her husband Shahid, 38, was hit by three cars as he crossed States Rd outside his home in Morphett Vale on Thursday night.


Mr Talpur's brother-in-law, Waheed Ahmed, said Mrs Talpur heard the crash about 5.35pm and called for an ambulance before running to help.

"She went out to help the lady driver who was yelling and she was trying to calm that lady, going 'Don't worry, it's not your fault, calm down, everything should be fine, I already called an ambulance' but when she glanced, she was shocked to find it was her husband on the floor," Mr Ahmed said.

Mr Talpur usually caught a bus home from his information technology job in the city. But on Thursday, he accepted a lift home and got out of the car on the opposite side of the road. As he crossed he was hit by a north-bound utility being driven by a Woodcroft man, 19.

Mr Talpur was thrown on to the road and struck by two south-bound cars. He died at the scene.

Mr Ahmed said his brother-in-law, an Ahmadi Muslim had fled religious persecution in Pakistan 12 years ago and he found happiness in Australia, marrying Anmoila and having three daughters aged 5, 4 and 2.

"He was in love with his family, he loved his kids, he was always playing a lot with them," he said.

"They are waiting for daddy . . . for the first night the poor kids slept without their daddy.

"He loved his life here, he loved Australia, the lifestyle, he loved the people here.

"He was about to be promoted at work, he was well respected, he helped a lot of other community members to establish here . . ."

Mr Ahmed urged drivers to slow down and called for more pedestrian islands on States Rd.

"On the road, please slow down," he said. "No one can replace the person for the kids. I don't know what the kids will be without the father, a father who loves them so much."

Police Major Crash investigators asked witnesses to contact BankSA Crime Stoppers, 1800 333 000, or www.sa.crimestoppers.com.au

The death takes the state's road toll to 52, compared with 61 at the same time last year.

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