A sixty-year-old woman died after hitting a vehicle, killing its occupant, while entering the motorway in the wrong direction.
Road drama on the A16. A sixty-year-old driver died Thursday January 2 after colliding head-on with a vehicle while she was driving the wrong way on a highway in Pas-de-Calais, killing the driver of the car and seriously injuring her passenger, the prefecture said. The driver, aged 61 according to the firefighters, went in the wrong direction at the end of the afternoon on the A16. It triggered a first accident at the Herquelingue toll gate near Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas de Calais), which did not cause any injuries, indicated the Pas-de-Calais prefecture.
She continued on her way and again hit a car, the 52-year-old driver of which was killed, added the prefecture. The 46-year-old passenger was hospitalized in an absolute emergency, firefighters said. The A16 was cut in the Paris/Boulogne-sur-Mer direction and a traffic jam of a few kilometers formed upstream of the accident, said the road surveillance unit of the zonal prefecture.
