Four people, a minor and three young people aged around twenty, died during the night from Saturday to Sunday in a road accident in Libourne (Gironde) four people, a minor and three young people aged around twenty years old, died on the night of Saturday to Sunday in a road accident in Libourne (Gironde), in circumstances still undetermined, indicated the prosecution.
“This morning, around 2:30 a.m., a serious accident occurred on the departmental road D 1089, in the town of Libourne. Three people died at the scene,” said Libourne public prosecutor Loïs Raschel in a press release. , who told AFP that the victims, “from the department” were “20 years old for one, 19 years old for the other two”.
A fourth victim, a minor, died of his injuries in hospital on Sunday morning, and a fifth suffered numerous fractures but his vital prognosis was not in jeopardy, the magistrate added later.
The prosecutor is awaiting the results of ongoing investigations to “determine the exact circumstances of the accident”, which “are at this stage uncertain and ambiguous”, according to the mayor of Libourne, Philippe Buisson, quoted in a press release published on Facebook.
“The violence of the shock was such that I am going to mobilize a psychological unit for first responders from the emergency and gendarmerie services,” the elected official declared by telephone to AFP.
According to him, the passengers in the car appear to be from Coutras, a small town located about twenty kilometers northeast of Libourne.
