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At the end of the morning, an elderly couple was the victim of a serious road accident between Baladou and Lachapelle-Auzac. The woman died, her seriously injured husband was evacuated by helicopter.
A couple of octogenarians from Lot were victims of a serious road accident this Friday, around 11 a.m., in the town of Lachapelle-Auzac. On site, firefighters from Souillac, Martel and Gourdon, provided first aid to the two injured people, including the woman who was already in cardio-respiratory arrest when help arrived. Despite their intervention to resuscitate her, death was pronounced a few moments later.
Her partner, seriously injured, was also treated, after being extricated from the vehicle which had fallen below the departmental road RD 803 in a walnut orchard. His serious condition required the mobilization of a Samu 31 helicopter to allow his rapid evacuation to a hospital in the Toulouse region.
As for the 34-year-old truck driver, slightly injured, he was treated and transported to the Gourdon hospital center. Alternating traffic has been put in place, and a garage intervenes at the beginning of the afternoon to evacuate the vehicles.
20 firefighters mobilized for the accident
Mobilizing nearly twenty firefighters from the surrounding area, this accident occurred at an intersection with the Route du Pigeon-Haut. A place where visibility at the intersection is high. According to the first elements observed by the gendarmerie, it seems that the couple unfortunately did not manage to stop to give priority to the arriving heavy goods vehicle.
A couple who have been in the town for around twenty years
Ernest Maury, the mayor of Lachapelle-Auzac, as well as his counterpart in Baladou quickly went to the scene of the tragedy. Ernest Maury remembers a couple “who had lived in the town for around twenty years. He was retired from EDF. Both were very dedicated to their poultry raising and other agricultural activities, such as tending their walnut trees. I don't know what could have caused this accident. Visibility is quite clear on this road axis. The lady may have been the victim of a malaise,” he imagines. The current investigation will focus on determining the precise circumstances of this road tragedy.
This fatal accident is the first of the year 2024 noted by the Souillac brigade community which intervened alongside the gendarmerie motorized platoon. Last year, they recorded four fatal accidents in their area of competence.
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