It was around 9:10 p.m. on January 1 when the driver of a Ludospace lost control of his vehicle on Chemin de la Borie-Blanche.
He was unable to avoid falling below this small traffic lane in Vals-près-le-Puy. The car plunged about ten meters before stopping in a stream, a tributary of the Dolaizon.
A slight injury
Of the four people who were inside, a 24-year-old man, placed in relative emergency, was taken to the Emile-Roux hospital center to carry out examinations.
“We were returning from a visit to my grandmother when, at the first left turn and on the descent, the vehicle seemed not to respond to braking,” explain the victims of this accident, met on the square this Thursday. “However, we were driving at 30 km/h because the narrow road did not allow us to drive faster. »
The vehicle escaped the driver's control due to this braking problem. He then violently hit the rocks at the side of the road, then he went gliding where he landed at the bottom of this stream.
Oil pollution
Faced with the risk of pollution for the watercourse, the firefighters called on a team specializing in chemical risks. They installed a dam downstream of the vehicle intended to absorb any hydrocarbon leaks. Leaks which turned out to be very real, because the car finished its journey lying on its side, on the side where the fuel filler flap is located.
This Thursday morning, these four young men, who experienced a strange adventure at the start of the year, took this episode rather philosophically. “We were very scared during the accident, but as everything ended well for us, we consider that the year has finally started well! »
