an 18-year-old man dies in an accident on the A6 motorway, his driver was airlifted

an 18-year-old man dies in an accident on the A6 motorway, his driver was airlifted
an 18-year-old man dies in an accident on the A6 motorway, his driver was airlifted

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Thibaut Faussabry

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Nov 6, 2024 at 4:29 p.m.

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Unfortunately, he could not be resuscitated. A young homme aged 18 ans East mort this Wednesday, November 6, 2024 in an accident that occurred on the A6 motorway, near Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne). Woundedin driver aged 53 ans was categorized as absolute emergency and helicopter to a hospital.

A collision with a tanker truck

The collision occurred shortly after 9 a.m., in the direction of towards the province. According to the first elements of the investigation, a vanwith the driver and her young passenger on board, crashed into the back of an empty tanker truck, after heavy braking.

Very quickly, emergency services were called to the scene and found the two occupants of the van. prisoners of the vehicle.

After an attempt at resuscitation, the man, cardio-respiratory arrest, was declared deceased by the doctor of the Mobile Hospital Unit (UMH) of Corbeil-Essonnes, specifies the departmental fire and rescue service.

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Negative screenings for the tanker truck driver

At the same time, firefighters carried out the extrication of the driver, seriously injured.

Once extracted from the vehicle, the fifty-year-old was transported, with a viral prognosis engagedby the Dragon 75.1 helicopter towards the Henri Mondor Hospital Center in Créteil (Val-de-).

For his part, the truck driver was not injured. After his medical examination, he was taken care of by the police who subjected him to alcohol and drug screenings, both negative according to a police source.

Traffic was temporarily blocked in both directions

The investigation opened by the Republican Security Company (CRS) motorway must specify the exact circumstances of this fatal accident.

The latter had impact on motorist traffic on the A6 motorway with a temporary closure of the axis in both directions of traffic to allow rescue operations and the landing of the helicopter.

This new fatal accident on the A6 motorway, comes less than two weeks after the death of a 40-year-old man, who died on October 26, after being hit by several cars near Villabé.

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