New road drama in France. Five people died and another was seriously injured Thursday morning in a road accident between two vehicles in Baie-Mahault in Guadeloupe, we learned from concordant sources.
The firefighters were called at “6:39 am for a serious road traffic accident, a frontal shock between two light cars” on a national road at a roundabout, according to the departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS) in Guadeloupe.
According to firefighters, the victims who died are a “20 -year -old woman” and “four men” aged in her twenties “, who were all in the same vehicle, while a man who was traveling on another car was” seriously injured “in the shock and transported to the hospital.
The five deceased young people “occupied a first vehicle” and the serious injuries is “the driver of the second vehicle,” said Captain Davy Mendès, assistant to the company commander of the Pointe-à-Pitre gendarmerie, present at the scene of the accident. “Some identities remain to be confirmed,” he said.
“An investigation is open to search for the causes of the accident, entrusted to the Baie-Mahault brigade,” according to the same source. The mayors of Baie-Mahault and Lamentin, where the deceased victims resided, went there. “It’s difficult, they are families that I know very well, young people in the age flower,” said the mayor of Lamentin, Jocelyn Sapotille, on RCI Guadeloupe.
