She had gone on a trip with her companion, bag on her back, for a long journey in South America. While they were both in Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, they were victims of a road accident on the night of Monday June 12 to Tuesday June 13. Kim Rollin, from the town of Brullioles, did not survive.
According to information from our colleagues from the Brazilian newspaper Globe , the couple were on board a taxi and were heading “towards the municipality of Bonito, after having visited Pantanal”, an ecoregion of Mato Grosso do Sul. Always according to Globethe taxi they were in allegedly swerved and crashed into the back of a truck, which was traveling on the same highway.
An open investigation
Sitting in the back of the vehicle, Kim Rollin, died at the scene of the accident. Her boyfriend and the taxi driver were not injured. An investigation would have been opened by the Brazilian authorities in order to clarify the circumstances of this tragic accident.
Kim Rollin, 24, left in May for a seven-month trip with her partner through South America. Nurse in oncology, at the Safeguard clinic in Lyon, “she had decided to go and live her dream”, can we read on the online pot in particular created “to support her family”.
His funeral must take place this Saturday, June 24, at 10 a.m., in the church of Brullioles where the family is from. The mayor of the town, Pascal Fichet, did not wish to speak. On social networks, the messages of support speak of an “incredible woman”, “who will shine forever”.
