“It’s a stupid accident”: while going to play the lottery, a sixty-year-old dies on a departmental road in Tarn-et-Garonne

Once is not usual, no positive blood alcohol level, no excessive speed or not wearing a seat belt. Friday November 29, 2024, shortly after 8 p.m., a tragedy unfolded near the place called Cayrou on the D 14 in Saint-Porquier (Tarn-et-Garonne).

In the middle of fog, a driver wanted to get off a road, but she took the wrong turn and her vehicle ended up in the ditch. Four people who were carpooling to a lottery were in the vehicle. Unfortunately, the front passenger, a 65-year-old man living in Montech, was seriously injured. When the firefighters and the Samu arrived, the sixty-year-old was in cardiorespiratory arrest. Despite a lengthy cardiac massage by rescuers, he was declared dead an hour later.

There are often accidents on the D14. Yesterday alone, there were three skirmishes.

Shocked, the driver, aged 67, was transported by firefighters to the Montauban hospital center. Two other people who were seated in the back escaped unhurt. “There are often accidents on the D14. Yesterday alone, there were three collisions, commented the mayor of Saint-Porquier, Xavier Prevedello. This is different, it’s a stupid accident. Due to fog, the driver bit the grass and slid into the ditch.”

The gendarmes carried out the usual findings and secured the premises, while the departmental council services restored the road. This fatal accident brings to 21 the number of road victims since the start of 2024 in Tarn-et-Garonne. This month of November was particularly deadly, with a 72-year-old cyclist killed in a collision with a car on November 13 in Montech and, on the night of November 16 to 17, a head-on collision between two cars in the Gasseras district of Montauban which cost the life of a 56-year-old man.