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In a press release published on social networks, the prefect asked motorists to “avoid the sector”. Traffic was blocked in both directions.
Seven people were killed, and two others injured, one of whom was seriously injured, in a traffic accident that occurred early Tuesday evening near Chartres, AFP learned from firefighters and the Eure-et-prefecture. Dormouse.
Five young people aged 19 to 20 died in the fire of their vehicle and a couple aged 90 and 85 were killed in the collision, which involved three vehicles shortly before 7:00 p.m. on the RD 921 in Bailleau-le-Pin, Frédéric Blanc, chief of staff of the prefect of Eure-et-Loir, told AFP.
“The first vehicle caught fire”
“A first vehicle which was traveling in the direction of Illiers-Combray – Chartres, in which there were five young people, collided with another vehicle which was traveling in the opposite direction, in which the elderly couple was”specified Frédéric Blanc. “The first vehicle then collided with a third vehicle which was also coming from the opposite direction. The first vehicle caught fire. The five occupants died in the fire.added the chief of staff.
In the third vehicle, a 23-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man were injured, one seriously. They were transported to the Chartres hospital center. Traffic was completely cut off on this secondary route to allow rescue operations.
