A serious accident involving a minibus carrying seven children aged 10 to 14 occurred in Lot-et-Garonne on Friday August 25, 2023, causing the death of a 12-year-old boy entrusted to social assistance at the childhood.
This is a scenario that unfortunately repeats itself. While many French people still have in mind the Beaune accident (1982), the deadliest road collision in France, killing 53 people, including 46 children and adolescents aged 5 to 14, a new drama of this kind hit France at the end of the summer season. Friday August 25, 2023, around 6 p.m., on a secondary road in the village of Houeillès, in Lot-et-Garonne, a minibus carrying seven minors aged 10 to 14 who were staying in a holiday center in Sauméjan violently crashed into the parapet of a bridge before fall into a ditch when he was returning from an organized outing to a leisure center. A 12 year old boy sadly lost his life after being transported to the Pellegrin hospital in Bordeaux, and four injured people are currently in absolute urgency.
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Fifty-one firefighters and 20 gendarmes, supported by the Samu, two helicopters and seven ambulances, were dispatched to the scene. “There was debris everywhere and we quickly saw the white van which was completely at the bottom of the ditch and it was screaming. Moans could be heard inside. The first [enfant] extract, they put it there, they immediately started cardiac massage. It must have lasted more than two hours, that’s for sure”testified a certain Ludovic to TF1, who was responsible for alerting the emergency services. According to the first elements of the investigation, the minibus, which was traveling in a straight line, was veered off course for some unexplained reason. Information on the state of the vehicle, its speed, the use of a mobile phone by the driver, an external event that would have disrupted the journey have not yet been revealed to date.
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The driver of the minibus taken into custody
Following this terrible accident, An investigation has been opened for manslaughter. The driver of the minibus was thus taken into custody. Aged 26, he is from Puy-de-Dôme and holds a Bafa, the certificate of aptitude for the functions of a facilitator, as reported by our colleagues from La Dépêche. “He is unknown to the justice and gendarmerie services.”, revealed in a press conference Olivier Naboulet, public prosecutor of Agen. According to the first elements, the young man was tested negative on blood alcohol test. To be continued.
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