a couple dies after a terrible accident, their son miraculously killed

After leaving the roadway on a mountain bend, the vehicle fell 70 meters before ending up at the bottom of a river, four meters deep.

A miracle in a tragic accident. This Sunday, December 15, a vehicle carrying a couple, their child and their dog, left the roadway in a bend on a mountainous departmental road in Ardèche, reports The Dauphiné Libéré . The car misses the parapet and ends its journey 70 meters below in a hole in the Bésorgues river, four meters deep. After such a fall, the child, aged 14, still managed to rise to the surface, get out of the water and run several kilometers to raise the alarm.

Around 5 p.m. Sunday, 44 firefighters were mobilized in this steep and difficult to access area. “This is the first time that there has been such an accident in this location and that we have seen so many firefighters in the town” declared the inhabitants of the neighboring village to our colleagues in Dauphiné Libéré. Unfortunately, the man, aged 47, and the woman, aged 46, could not be saved. The child was taken care of by emergency services while the family dog ​​was entrusted to a veterinary clinic.

The stunned villagers

The day after the incident, a couple from the small town of Labastide-sur-Bésorgues, located in the south of Ardèche, said they took in the rescued teenager just after the incident. “We heard a very loud knock on the window” they confide, always Dauphiné Libéré. When they opened their door, they discovered the boy frozen, his face bloody.

The teenager details his accident and explains that he dove into the water several times to save his parents. Before reaching the nearest house, he ran for fifteen minutes wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks. The village couple then rushed to offer him a hot shower while notifying emergency services. According to the gendarmes' initial findings, the family is from Bollène, in , and was returning from a day spent in the snow at the time of the accident.

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