Killed in a road accident: Bradley Albert, 20, broke at the dawn of his climb

Bradley Allan Albert was 20 years old. He was an entrepreneur, a loving son, a boss who treated his employees like family. Tuesday, a collision on the Pointe-aux-Sables coastal road took everything away.

There are people who grow up quickly, not because life forces them to, but because they are made that way – in a hurry to build, in a hurry to prove, in a hurry to live. Bradley Allan Albert was one of them. Twenty years old, from Cassis, determined, ambitious, smiling, with a big heart – these are the words of those who loved him.

Tuesday afternoon, he got on his motorcycle as he did every day. On the coastal road to Pointe-aux-Sables, he hit a bus. The shock was violent. Bradley died instantly, taking with him all his dreams and aspirations, leaving, his family says, “a huge chasm”.

Behind him, he leaves his devastated parents, his two brothers, his sister-in-law, his employees, and a former police officer turned business manager who says he knew that Bradley was going to become someone great. He also leaves a cleaning company, a company vehicle in his name, and two employees whose salaries he paid each month.

Bradley had studied up to Grade 9. He could have continued, but he didn't want to. Not out of laziness. But because he saw elsewhere, further, differently. “He thought bigger and knew he could succeed,” explains his sister-in-law Leticia. Where others would have seen a dead end, Bradley saw a starting point.

He then began working in the cleaning sector with a friend. A period of learning in the full sense of the term: observing each gesture, carrying out each task entrusted to him, giving himself entirely to what he does. It was at that moment that he crossed paths with a man who would be important in his life: a former police officer who had just left the force to launch into entrepreneurship.

“I knew him when he was still very young,” says this man in the tribute he dedicated to him. “He followed my lives on TikTok while I was still in the police force. Later, when I made the decision to leave the police force to start my own business, Bradley became my very first employee. »

Something quickly develops between the two of them that goes beyond the working relationship. They share whole days, meals, discussions, efforts, successes. And life lessons. “From the start, he was dedicated, courageous and ready to learn. He loved work, especially cleaning. He was not afraid to start small, listen, correct himself and progress. He was not just an employee. He had become someone I deeply respected. »

What Bradley received from those years was a foundation: a job well done, discipline, management, responsibility, entrepreneurship. “Even when the beginnings were difficult, Bradley had a rare quality