Two people died on the A16 this Thursday in Pas-de-Calais.
A sixty-year-old woman collided head-on with a vehicle while driving against traffic, killing the driver.
The passenger in the accident car was seriously injured, the prefecture said.
Two accidents in the space of a few minutes, including one fatal. A sixty-year-old driver died this Thursday, January 2 after colliding head-on with a vehicle while she was driving the wrong way on a highway in Pas-de-Calais.
A 52-year-old driver dies
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, without causing any injuries. It was further that the facts turned into drama.
Going against the flow of traffic, the sixty-year-old collided head-on with a second vehicle. The driver, aged 52, was killed, the prefecture said. 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, added the road surveillance unit of the zonal prefecture.
