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A 28-year-old cyclist died on Friday in Flourens, near Toulouse. The driver who hit him, while driving his car, was said to have taken drugs.
Died at age 28, during a simple bike ride. Terrible circumstances as often in road accidents which have been numerous since the start of the weekend of November 1st. The investigation opened by the gendarmes of the Toulouse Saint-Michel company on Friday evening after the shock had an unpleasant surprise in store. Shortly after the collision, the driver, a 39-year-old man, mentioned the setting sun which would have dazzled him and prevented him from seeing the cyclist.
Only he would have mainly consumed narcotics. The results of the analyzes should be known quickly. And this was not a first since this man was already convicted six months ago for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Already 7 fatal drug-related accidents
At the end of his police custody in the premises of the Balma brigade, this artisan electrician was presented to the public prosecutor's office this Sunday in Toulouse. A judicial investigation was opened for “manslaughter aggravated” by at least one circumstance, in this case drug consumption. The prosecution made requests for placement in detention but the defense lawyers, Messrs Bouchra Rabhi and Guy Debuisson, obtained placement under judicial supervision by the judge of freedoms and detention.
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This tragedy recalls another accident where a 12-year-old boy was killed a week earlier, on Friday October 25 in Labastidette near Muret. Here too the driver of the car involved had used cocaine. He was indicted and imprisoned. According to road safety, since January in Haute-Garonne, at least seven fatal accidents have involved people having consumed drugs (at least nine involving alcohol).
Friday November 1, another driver was killed in Seyre in Lauragais. This 58-year-old man was riding a motorcycle. The causes of his loss of control remain uncertain. Another biker, victim of a bad acrobatics on Friday in the Reynerie district, in Toulouse, and a woman, seriously injured when she lost control of a car in Lauragais on Thursday evening, are still in a coma. Doctors remain cautious about the evolution of their state of health.
