The door of her room was torn off by a stone. “She went above my bed […] I have nothing anymore, everything is destroyed “she summarizes.
Friday evening, Françoise was not at home. Luckily, she visited a friend. Shortly after midnight, a vehicle circulating on the N90 deviated from its trajectory, struck an embankment and cut an electric pole before ending in the facade of this building which has four apartments. The driver, a father, died.
Maison inhabitable
This Monday, Françoise, Katia and Alexandre, the various owners are still stunned. In his own way, everyone retraces the story of the night of the accident, with the deafening crash that took them out of bed as the starting point. “It had the effect of a bomb or an earthquake … everything moved.” Thereafter, comes the discovery of the scene, the arrival of the emergency services and the injunction to leave the premises a few hours given the dramatic outcome of the accident. “I was in pajamas, I left like that.”
At the start of the week, phones heat up. Insurance, experts … The procedures are multiplying. The verdict quickly fell.
“The house is uninhabitable”explains Katia, designating with a gesture of the hand the crack which runs above the door of the garden. It will be necessary to dislodge, first for a few weeks, probably at the hotel, before long months, the time for the work.
3 accidents for 50 meters
“The idea is to repair identically, but in a year, we have known 3 accidents for 50 meters. How could I come back to this living room where a car entered? If we do nothing, it’s unimaginable”indicates Françoise.
Indeed, last year, the facade of Thierry and Annick, the neighbors, had been ripped after the road release of an Audi Q3 RS rented by four young people. They miraculously got out.
A year later, the couple has just finished the renovation of their house. Trauma is always lively. “In this kind of circumstances, people just see a cover on the facade. They do not realize the consequences, everything that happens inside. We are as dispossessed of home …”explains Annick who has redesigned all the development of his house to burst the living rooms of this roadway, all of which underline insecurity, especially due to the excessive speed of certain motorists.
Whether to cross the road or to start your car, the script is always the same. “You look on the left, right … there is nothing. Then suddenly, you turn your head and a car tumbles …”
Collective citizen
From now on, these residents intend to militate to secure this section. As he did a dozen years ago to modify the Sorée roundabout after the tragic death of two young people aged 18 and 19, Thierry is counting on citizen mobilization to force the debate. “I have the will to create a committee of residents in order to analyze what can be done and exceed the possibilities …” Radar section, chicane, speed limitation, back-ton, tricolor fire … Man is not lacking in idea. “To find a solution, you have to put all the actors around the table, and the citizen is one!” Sorée accident: the courageous call of the parents of the victims to political leaders
According to the VIAS Institute, between 2014 and 2023, each year at least 8 accidents making at least one killed or an injured person took place on the N90 throughout the territory of the city of Andenne. In 2023, the year of the latest data available, there were 15.
Requested analyzes
In charge of road safety, Vincent Sampaoli, the bourgmestre of Andenne, recalls that the prosecution is carrying out an investigation to determine the causes of this weekend accident.
However, the elected official asked the police to send him the latest traffic analyzes carried out on this section limited to 70 km/h, in order to know the speeds practiced there.
Subsequently, he intends to put the competent actors around the table. Vincent Sampaoli specifies, however, that the N90 has already been the subject of multiple developments.
