The N147 killed in Vienne, Thursday April 17, 2025, around 3 p.m. A 52-year-old driver was fatally injured following a shock with a semi-trailer from Lithuania. The extremely violent frontal collision occurred a few kilometers from mills in the direction of Poitiers, before the place called La Porcelaine.
At the top of a coast, the Renault Clio was driving in the Limoges-Poitiers direction. Opposite, the road assembly could not do anything to avoid shock despite emergency braking. The motorist was killed instantly, despite the rapid intervention of fifteen firefighters and a SAMU team on site. A funeral team evacuated the body around 4:30 p.m. The damaged car was taken care of by Leignes-sur-Fontaine convenience store. The road set was towed by Barrault Troubleshooting of Poitiers.
The driver from Lithuania could not do anything to avoid the car.
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The second fatal accident in Moulismes in a week
The gendarmes of the Montmorillon company, in charge of the investigation, will have to determine the circumstances which led to this woman from the south of France (Cantal), to find death on this extremely dangerous road. An autopsy will be practiced at the Medical Institute of the Poitiers University Hospital. It is the second fatal accident in a week on the N147, in Moulismes, after the death of a 31-year-old mother near the Porcelaine.
Up to 5 km of traffic jams in the Poitiers-Limoges direction and as much in the other direction of the N147, blocked in both directions for more than an hour and a half.
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Traffic completely blocked for 1 hour 30
This accident caused the total closure of both directions of traffic on the N147 for more than 1 hour 30 minutes. Hundreds of trucks and cars were stopped over 5 km in the Potiers-Limoges and Limoges-Poitiers. The situation was aggravated by the works undertaken on the N147, not allowing agents of the road management present on site to set up the usual deviations.
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