The shock appears to have been “very violent”, according to the Tarn prefecture. Early this Sunday, November 17, five people died in a car accident in Gaillac (Tarn), said the public prosecutor of Albi
Shortly before 5 a.m., emergency services were “notified of a road accident on the RD 988” linking Gaillac and Lisle-sur-Tarn, specifies the prefecture in a press release. “When they arrived, they noticed that a vehicle had struck a tree.”
Four burned bodies were inside the vehicle which caught fire. A fifth person, ejected from the passenger compartment, was found not far away, about 20 meters from the wreckage, adds La Dépêche du Midi. Emergency services were unable to resuscitate her. According to France Bleu Occitanie, this young man aged around twenty was the only victim that the gendarmes were able to identify at midday.
An accident “seems to involve only one vehicle”
A flagrant investigation into manslaughter by a vehicle driver was opened by the Albi public prosecutor’s office and “aims to identify the victims and the circumstances of the accident, an accident which, at present, does not seem to involve only one vehicle. Autopsies are to be carried out in the coming days
Quoted by France 3 OccitaniePatrice Drihole, general director of Gaillac town hall services, explains that the accident occurred in “a long straight line lined with plane trees”. “But we have no information on the origin of this accident,” he continues. “Speed, mechanical defect, an animal… Difficult to say at this time.”
Original article published on BFMTV.com
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