Magirus Found in Africa - Driver is diseased
Verfasst: 2019-11-26 6:46:07
Hello everyone, a friend of a friend is travelling in Africa and is reaching out to try and find the family of the diseased owner of a Magirus located in Sierra Leone.
The driver is dead and the truck is being pillaged by locals. If you know how to contact the family of the owner, message me and I’ll put you in contact with the person who sent this message:
The driver is dead and the truck is being pillaged by locals. If you know how to contact the family of the owner, message me and I’ll put you in contact with the person who sent this message:
We came across a rather sad situation yesterday in a village called Zimmy (about 10 miles from Taninahun) there is a German Overlander truck and motorbike parked outside the Zimmy police station (see photos) About 3 months ago the truck got stuck on one of the local back roads and sadly the driver died. Its difficult to get a clear/truthful understanding of what has happened but it would appear that the body has been taken by his family (not 100% certain this is true) but the vehicles have been parked for 3 months outside the police station.
My understanding is that they cannot do anything with the vehicles without the owners consent however everything of value is slowly disappearing. If it stays much longer it fairly certain it will be stripped and the motorbike will disappear.
We would like to offer some support to the family to resolve this sad situation but communications from here are so bad I need some help to get things started. If possible I want to get things moving before we leave SL. I am not sure how but are you in a position to try and find his family?
Colin mat be able to help.
If you are OK could you contact his family and offer our help to repair/move/store the vehicles. Some fairly large cost are involved as everything here involves a lot of official paperwork and backhanders.
After the vehicles are released from the police it will be possible to decide what to do with them. If sold import duties will need paying and a rather complex registration process needs to be followed.
We can help if they are happy to pay the costs.
What do you think?