Seven people were killed and two others injured on Tuesday evening in a road accident near Chartres (Eure-et-Loire). A resident of Bailleau-le-Pin heard the collision and immediately went to the scene with her mother and brother. “We did our best,” she explains on RMC, confiding that she experienced a “traumatic” episode.
“With my mother and my brother, we ran along the road to see what had happened and to try to help as many people as possible,” recounts Sarah, 19, on RMC. She lives in Bailleau-le-Pin (Eure-et-Loire), site of the accident near Chartres which killed seven people on Tuesday evening. Two other people were also injured, one seriously.
Five young people aged 17 to 19 died in the fire of their vehicle and a couple aged 80 and 85 were killed in the collision, which involved three vehicles shortly before 7 p.m. on the RD 921 in Bailleau-le-Pin .
“As I speak to you, the most likely hypothesis is that the car in which there were five occupants was probably driving too fast, explained the prosecutor. Coming out of the bend, it passed over the traffic lane in front She was hit head-on by a car that was arriving slowly,” explained in. Apolline Morningthis Wednesday on RMC And RMC Storyprosecutor Frédéric Chevallier.
“It was backfiring everywhere”
“We heard a brake slam and a big boom that was quite violent,” explains Sarah*. On site, with her mother and brother, they noticed large plumes of smoke and impressive flames, approximately “20 meters” high, according to her. “The tires were exploding, it was backfiring everywhere, people were getting excited, people were screaming.”
His brother decides to quickly call the firefighters while his mother positions herself on the bends to calm traffic and warn people, in order to avoid further accidents.” Despite everything, “people tried to overtake to see what he was doing. was happening.” Sarah decided to go get three fire extinguishers from her father’s shed. “We tried to do the most we could, we tried to put out the flames,” she confides.
“People I have already met”
The firefighters once on site, Sarah assists in the rescue operation. “Knowing that they were in the car burning and I couldn’t do anything… It’s traumatic.” “I know that the victims were my age, people who live near me, whom I already met in primary or secondary school…” “When you see the helicopter, you know it’s serious “It’s an experience that I didn’t necessarily like, it’s not fun,” adds Sarah.
“We must not play with people’s lives on the road”
According to her, the road “is dangerous” and “people know it”. “We need to realize, on this road and everywhere in France, that speed limits must be respected,” she advocates. “When you’re young, you want to drive fast, it’s exciting, but you have to watch out for others. You shouldn’t play with people’s lives on the road.”
*The first name has been changed
Leo Manson with Nicolas Traino
