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Vincent Malboeuf
Published on
Jan 24, 2025 at 6:06 p.m.
It is one of the most important crossroads accident-causing of the Nantes vineyard (in Loire-Atlantique).
At the Wooden City, crossed by the RD115 between Loroux-Bottereau and Landemont, traffic is heavy on this long straight line. And the speed limit of 70 km/h is far from always being respected.
Above all, two roads cross right in the middle of the village of a few houses: one coming from La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, the other from La Remaudière.
“The last accident was a few months ago, and as is often the case, motorists crossed the stop sign and hit another who was traveling on the RD115,” testifies Pascale Baudry.
Two fatal accidents in 30 years
His house runs along the departmental road. She has lived here for around thirty years.
I can't even count the number of accidents because there have been so many. From memory, there have been two fatalities since we've been here.
A year and a half ago, a car hit its low wall, which faces the RD115.
In 2013, it was even a vehicle that was completely built into the wall of his garageshe remembers. “Fortunately, there were no injuries.”
Half as many fatal accidents in the Vineyard in 2024
The year 2025 got off to a bad start on the roads of the Nantes vineyards with the death of a 28-year-old woman on New Year's Day in the Loroux-Bottereau countryside. She was a passenger in the damaged vehicle. In 2024, five people died among the 49 recorded across the Loire-Atlantique department (in Vertou and Château-Thébaud in December, in Vallet in July, in La Remaudière in June and in Saint-Lumine-de -Clisson in January). This is half as much as in 2023 in the Nantes vineyard (10 in total).
Same trend on the “44” since 56 fatal accidents were recorded two years ago, except that at the same time, the number of road accidents increased by 4.5% (from 662 to 692), just like the number of injured between 2023 and 2024 (518 to 619). Figures which give satisfaction if we compare to the beginning of the 2000s, with 145 killed in 2001 then 112 in 2003 in the Loire-Atlantique.
These local residents sometimes help accident victims
It even happens to this caregiver to help accident victims in front of her home.
“I feel less insecure since my two daughters left home. Because when they left the village with their car, I was worried. One day, in 2019, one of them was hit when she had turned on her turn signal to return home. She escaped unscathed but was disappointed because her car was destroyed.
Francis was rollerblading on the road in the 1950s
His next door neighbor Francis was born in Ville en Bois and returned there in 2000.
In the 1950s, he remembers, he “never felt afraid” and had fun “rolling rollers” between his home and the road to La Remaudière, or even “making snowmen.” » where they circulate nearly 6,000 vehicles per day in 2025.
He too has witnessed many accidents on his doorstep. One day a car arrived right under his living room window. “They were coming out of a family birthday party. There were no injuries.”
The octogenarian admits to being “more vigilant than elsewhere” when he leaves his house.
The big problem is people driving fast. Instead of being at 70 km/h, they are more like 140 or 150! There needs to be an educational radar.
Speed bumps rather than a roundabout
The two neighbors make do. But they are not not against new security measures on the part of the Department of Loire-Atlantique, after the installation of sign 70 at the entrances to the village and the installation of sidewalks and white stripes at a stop sign in recent years.
Pascale would like to see speed bumps “like in the village before, at Croix des Landes”, rather than a roundabout.
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