Migrant workers killed in van smash
Migrant workers killed in van smash
Three migrant workers were killed and another eight workers hospitalised in a head-on crash at Croft, near Skegness, at about 7am on Tuesday 13 November. The collision involved a white Leyland van travelling south and a black Rover 600 going in the opposite direction. The dead were Polish woman Irena Polak, 47, from Skegness, who was a passenger in the van, and Lithuanians Zenonas Buza, 22, and Sandra Bredelyte, 22, both from Wrangle, near Boston, who were in the front of the Rover. The Reverend David de Verny, the migrant workers' chaplain for Lincolnshire, expressed his concerns about the general safety of foreign workers being transported on county roads each day. He said: 'There are hundreds of these mini vans across the county and over the border. There is a criss-crossing every morning and every evening. In a way I am surprised there has not been an accident like this since the last one.' Mr de Verny urged foreign workers worried about the conditions of their transport to get in touch with police or the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA). Mrs Polak's son, Simon, 24, said: 'Like me, my mother came to the UK in search of a better quality of life.' He said initially she worked for a local horticultural business. At the end of that contract she started work for a Benington-based vegetable processing company. The tragedy evoked memories a Valentine's Day 2006 car crash in which five migrant workers from Grantham, Lincolnshire, were killed (Risks 244).
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