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The driver, aged 61, entered the wrong direction on the A16 and caused a first accident before continuing on her way and again hitting a car, the 52-year-old driver of which was killed.
A sixty-year-old driver died this Thursday, January 2 after colliding head-on with a vehicle while she was driving in the wrong direction on a highway in Pas-de-Calais, killing the driver of the car and seriously injuring her passenger, the prefecture said. .
Several accidents
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.
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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.
