The old man gripped the court bar. The weight of the fault which brought him before the judges, this Thursday in Gap, seems to weigh him down a little more than it is. On November 6, 2023, in Gap, route de Valserres, aged 92, he hit two cyclists, a mother and her son, while driving his car.
Seriously injured, both were taken to Gap hospital where the mother died. To help, Jacques Payan had picked up two young girls who were going to the Eméyères agricultural high school. They will be helpless witnesses to the tragic accident.
From the investigation carried out by the public prosecutor, the circumstances of the accident appear overwhelming for the driver. In a bend, he pulled straight ahead and found himself facing the two cyclists who were riding single file in their lane. He didn't have the strength to turn the steering wheel, nor the reflex to brake. The shock was violent. Emmanuelle Ribail, Coronat's wife, lived in Florida (United States) with her husband, a French soldier. She had come to visit her son who was about to start post-baccalaureate training. After 120 days of ITT and several surgical interventions, it is still not consolidated and two new interventions await him.
