Tom Waes in conversation with Dutch road workers: « The accident has changed my behavior »

In a TV interview at the end of March, he said « enormously ashamed » and previously he had a meeting with Vincent Leus, whose daughter Emilie was killed in November 2009 in a serious traffic accident with a drunken driver.

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In the Netherlands, on March 26, at the invitation of the Department of Specialist Road Construction Department (VSW) of Bouwend Nederland, he went to a company that supplies, among others, Botsabsorbeerders, it reports Algemeen Dagblad. The also very popular presenter with our northern neighbors stood face to face with road workers who witnessed how often they should fear their job when performing their job, this due to careless and often derived road users. The images of that day appeared on Wednesday.

Waes (56) confesses « to feel some shame when I came here » and says he has made a « stupid mistake » again. « But I was very well received here ». « It is thanks to the Botsabsorbeerder that I am standing. »

Waes says he has « discovered the cruise control » and « keeps itself neatly within the standards ». « The accident has changed my behavior, » he says. « I got a sort of second chance. Because when you see from which car I got and how I got out … then I am very happy that here is still standing. Then you have to do something with it here. »

« We are not here to bully. We would really like to come home safely with our family. With our wife, child, » the road workers say in the video. « It would be very nice for us if the road user would take that more into account. »