Josep Boan Rosanes died on August 9, 2020 in the A Coruña town of Dumbría in an accident in which a car hit his motorcycle. Three years later, her mother received an invoice in the name of her deceased son to pay the costs of cleaning the road, 485.50 euros that were finally cancelled, but which left her “destroyed.” .
The mother, María Pilar Rosanes, has been using the social network that they asked him to pay “in equal parts” with the driver who caused his son’s accident the costs of cleaning the road.
“They have destroyed me,” the publication concluded, of the invoice, which details that those 485.5 euros correspond to three hours and 22 minutes of work by the Provincial Firefighters Consortium of A Coruña, a 50% owned organization. by the Provincial Council and the Xunta de Galicia.
This mother’s complaint is directed to the Provincial Council as the institution that issues the invoice, although consulted sources point out that the Firefighters Consortium manages this type of fee collection autonomously. Be that as it may, it is the Provincial Council itself that, just a few hours after Pilar’s publication, confirms that the fee has been annulled.
Sources from this institution consulted by EL MUNDO explain that this invoice was issued “by mistake” and that they “deeply regret it.” As soon as they became aware of what happened, they claim that they contacted the Firefighters Consortium, the invoice was canceled and the driver responsible for the accident will be charged.
As they explain, the usual practice is for the Consortium to send the collection of fees to the insurance companies of all the vehicles involved in the accidents, and then it is the insurance companies that reach an agreement so that the person responsible for the accident pays. In this case, this did not happen because on the day of the accident the firefighters who intervened could not take Josep’s insurance information, only his personal information. In this way, the bureaucracy caused the invoice to be sent to a deceased person who was a victim and not the cause of the accident.
The bug was fixed “in a matter of hours,” but the damage caused to Pilar will last much longer. She has had to relive everything that happened and it has caused her “infinite pain,” as she herself acknowledges in a publication. She sees it as an “intolerable humiliation” that adds to all the problems she has been facing for the last three years trying to get justice for her son’s accident. “How much more indifference from the administrations and the judicial system must we endure? (Sic),” she asks herself.
Josep, a 20-year-old native of Barcelona, was in Galicia, accompanied by his father, doing a motorcycle tour. That day he died when he was hit by a car that invaded the opposite lane and the driver was sentenced in court to two and a half years in prison and three and a half years of license withdrawal for the crime of serious reckless homicide.
María Pilar Rosanes’ discomfort with this bill was due to the fact that she wanted her deceased son to pay the same as her “murderer”, with whose reduced sentence she has expressed her disagreement. Now, the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, through the Provincial Council, will send it to that other driver’s insurance, so that it can pay 100%.