At midnight around midnight, this fifties behind the wheel of his utility nose to face with a juggernaut of the road rolling in the infringement near Rive-de-Gier. “At the end of ten seconds, it was my hour,” he said to our colleagues from progress still shaken by this unlikely meeting. Starting from Clermont-Ferrand with his wife who followed him in a second vehicle, the couple had chosen to travel at night towards their destination Drômoise to “roll quiet”. Quickly disturbed tranquility.
A racing car of several tonnes launched like a missile
Sébastien’s story is a freezing: after having doubled a car and having folded down, he saw a heavy goods vehicle appeared at high speed. “He was rolling at an open tomb by making headlight calls,” he says. According to his testimony, the road complex was circulating on the fast track while he was ranging peacefully at 90 km/h.
The shock of this vision was such that Sébastien did not even have time to be frightened. “For the brain, it is completely incoherent to see a heavyweight arriving thoroughly in front of you,” he analyzes with hindsight.
-After alerting the emergency services, Sébastien wanted to know what happened to the reckless driver. The responses obtained from the authorities perceived it: if the interdepartmental direction of roads confirms having seen the truck on surveillance cameras, it also recognizes that these devices do not allow you to read the license plates.
“Today, you are flashed for two kilometers above or for an outdated parking schedule. But there, we are not able to find someone who endangers the lives of others? Sébastien is indignant in the columns of progress.
A sadly used road to fatal misinterpretations
Unfortunately, the A47 is not at its first drama linked to drivers driving in the wrong way. In August 2022, a frontal collision between a Fiat 500 and a Citroën C3 claimed the lives of three people. In 2018, a driver with 2g of alcohol in the blood traveled 12 km against the wrong way before being arrested. In 2015 and 2013, other similar incidents occurred, some mortals.
