Implicated for having caused the accident on the A26 on Saturday November 16, 2024, leading to the death of a mother and her two children aged 8 and 10, a 52-year-old driver was placed in police custody this Friday November 22, 2024. Toxicological analyzes reveal that he was positive for narcotics during the accident.
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A week after the tragic car accident which cost the life of a mother and her two children aged 8 and 10 on the A26 motorway, the driver of the vehicle involved was taken into police custody this Friday, November 22, 2024 For manslaughter by driver who used drugs. He is a 52-year-old man of Maltese nationality.
Indeed, “Toxicological analyzes established the presence of narcotics in his blood.indicates Benoît Gauthé, deputy public prosecutor at the Arras judicial court.
He was placed in police custody today for manslaughter by a driver who used drugs and will be presented to an investigating judge.
Benoît Gauthé, deputy public prosecutor at the Arras judicial court
Transported in absolute emergency to the Lille hospital center by the emergency services after the accident last Saturday November 16, his vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy.
On Saturday November 16, 2024, at the beginning of the afternoon, the tragedy occurred on the A26 motorway in the Calais – Reims direction near the interchange with the A1 motorway, in the Arras region (Pas- de-Calais). It follows from the first elements of the investigation that the accident “follows the rear-end of the victims' car by the defendant's vehicle.”describes the Arras parquet floor.
Dispatched to the scene, the firefighters could only note the death of the mother and her two children, installed in the rear of the vehicle.
Read also ► Family killed in a car accident on the A26: a white march in tribute to the mother and her two children aged 8 and 10
The death of the family caused an immense wave of emotion in Vimy, the town where they lived and where the children went to school. An online fundraiser has been launched to finance their funerals.
The Vimy football club and the parents' association are organizing a white march on Saturday November 23, 2024 to pay tribute to them. The meeting is set for 10:15 a.m. in front of the city's football stadium.
