Story By: Ana Marjanovic, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
These two sisters have been buried in a joint funeral after the car they were travelling in crashed into a pillar killing all four people inside.
Sisters Irma Usto, 21, and Elma Usto, 20, were travelling in the car with two others when the unnamed driver lost control and crashed into a pillar on the E6 highway in the city of Gothenburg in southern Sweden’s Vastra Gotaland County.
Local media report all four of those inside the car, who were all in their twenties, were killed in the accident. The car that eye witnesses said was travelling at speed apparently flew into the air before colliding with the pillar.
Reports state the accident happened at around 4 am and was seemingly caused by slippery roads with the car reportedly travelling too fast for the conditions.
According to witness reports “it was quite windy and there were many puddles on the road. The car had run straight into the pillar.”
The sisters were originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina and moved to Sweden after the Bosnian War, in which their father Midhat Usto Mirza fought as a member of the Special Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Bosnian War ended in December 1995.
Their mother, Dzenana Usto, has honoured them in a text on social media. She wrote that they had gone out to help a friend at the time of the accident:
“They were such lovely and beautiful children, kindhearted and always happy. I have always been proud of them and always will be. They are children that all parents would want. And they died to help someone else.”
Family and friends said their final goodbyes to the sisters at St. Olof’s Chapel in Gothenburg. On a wreath from the sisters’ workplace it said: “Heaven has got two new angels. It got us. “
The police have launched a preliminary investigation into the cause of the accident on charges of gross negligence and gross negligence resulting in manslaughter.
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