Dramatic accident on the A9 in Gard on Christmas night: a 35-year-old woman dies, three members of the same family injured

Dramatic accident on the night of Tuesday December 24 to Wednesday December 25 on the A9 motorway, in Gard. Shortly after 3 a.m., in the Nîmes – Montpellier direction, two cars and a heavy goods vehicle collided at high speed at the level of the commune of Milhaud.

Despite the rapid and numerous dispatch of firefighters, with four ambulances, a road emergency vehicle, two officers and a nurse, supported by a medical team from the Nîmes Smur, the human toll is terrible: there are 7 victims.

A 35-year-old woman, thrown from her vehicle and struck, died before help arrived; three members of the same family from the other vehicle, men aged 17, 22 and 41, were injured and taken to hospital; the driver of the truck, a 30-year-old man, was treated on the spot and also transported to hospital; two witnesses to the accident, involved and shocked, a 37-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, also had to be treated and transported to hospital.

Total interruption of traffic

The intervention required the total interruption of traffic on the motorway in the Orange – Montpellier direction for several hours to secure the intervention with the gendarmerie and the motorway company and for the purposes of the investigation and the removal of vehicles. .

The reasons for the accident are not known at this stage. The gendarmerie opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of this tragedy on Christmas Day.