Bereaved family remembers Tyrone Charles Lessing
"The cross is there to caution motorists that the death bend is a terrible road and to please drive with caution.”
Tyrone Charles Lessing’s loved ones gathered at the road curve of JG Strijdom Road and Ruby Street in Mayberry Park on August 22 to remember him.
About a year ago, Tyrone died at the curve in the road, which is also known as the ‘death bend’ due to a fatal car accident.
As previously reported, he had gone missing for two weeks before his body was found in a sewage drain, metres from where the accident occurred.
On the day, his family sent out a message advising motorists to be vigilant on a road which is reported to being a cause for many accidents.
Tyrone’s mother, Charlotte Lessing, said: “We have erected a cross in his honour. This is to remember him and the fact that he died on that peice of the road. The cross is there to caution motorists that the death bend is a terrible road and to please drive with caution.”
She also told the RECORD her son could have survived; however, because of the severity of the condition and the fact that he was not found immediately, he did not.
“My son was in that drain for 14 days. We couldn’t identify him by his face, only by his tattoos. He might have still been alive at the time of the accident, but lost his life in that drain,” she said.
