The Eure firefighters were called around 6:30 a.m. on Friday 1is November 2024, for an accident at the Heudebouville toll (Eure), indicates Actu.fr.
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A vehicle with three men on board collided, at high speed, with a concrete block at the toll barrier.
A dramatic human toll
When firefighters arrived, two men were “heavily trapped” in the vehicle. The third was able to be taken out by witnesses. The firefighters were unable to save him, despite an attempt at resuscitation. All three were pronounced dead.
To allow the intervention of the 23 mobilized firefighters and SMUR, toll lanes had been neutralized.
In a press release, the Eure prefecture indicates that an investigation has been opened “and entrusted to the departmental road safety squadron of the national gendarmerie, under the authority of the Evreux public prosecutor’s office”.
