A car drove on Saturday night with a big speed against a boulder on the outskirts of Riel. According to local residents, it goes wrong time and time again at the road narrowing. The motorist, a 23 -year -old man from Tilburg, is in a critical condition in the hospital. The fragments of the car are still on the roadside, but the boulder has since disappeared. “It is great here, but the boulder must stay,” says local residents.
They are world famous in Riel: Keien. During carnival, the village is renamed a quay hole. Everywhere in Riel they are, only one boulder, at the roadside where you drive into the village, it always loses it out: “A few weeks ago someone had already hit it,” says local resident Daphne van Schaijk. Yet, according to her, the fault is not with De Kei: “He has been there for years, but there is so hard drifting here. Spacious in advance is a speed sign with a limit of 30. If you stick to it, you can easily drive around it. ”
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Along the narrowing, banners of Riel are fluttering. ‘Kaaigoed’, it says it is written. Yet things are going well, according to local resident Nick Janssen. He regularly encounters fragments of cars on the roadside and suspects that the motorist wanted to enter Riel at too high. “But preventing someone from driving too fast, you don’t do that with a road narrowing,” he says. “You see the proof here,” says Nick, fishing a Skoda emblem from the grass.
“Traffic rules do not apply here, it is the right of the strongest.”
Nick also believes that the Kei belongs to Riel: “It is Kaaiengat here. The Kei is in a place where no cars should go, but it is great here. ” The local resident regularly notices how dangerous the point is: “Time and again you will not get priority from the right. Traffic rules do not apply here, it is the right of the strongest. “
According to the local resident, the road Versmalking is wrong: “He gets narrower to the back. If you turn it around, you will notice that you have to brake. ” Nick therefore believes that the municipality should think carefully about the whole situation: “They don’t just have to build a hundred houses in Riel and expect the way to handle that.”
Mayor Mark van Stappershoef says that the municipality has now removed De Kei as a precaution: “Of course we will take a good look at the situation and depending on that we decide whether the KEI will definitely stay away and whether other measures are needed.”