In wanting to control a vehicle in the Landes, two gendarmes hit the trailer of a tractor when it was turning on an adjacent lane.
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Un second policeman died on Wednesday after being seriously injured in an accident during a roadside check the day before in the Landes which caused the death of one of his colleagues, announced Gérald Darmanin.
The gendarme died in hospital “as a result of his injuries”, said the Minister of the Interior in a press release. A 25-year-old non-commissioned officer, he joined the gendarmerie in 2017 and had been a member of the Labouheyre motorized platoon “for almost a year”, added Gérald Darmanin, saluting his memory.
An open investigation
The accident took place Tuesday before 4 p.m. on a departmental road northwest of Mont-de-Marsan. In wanting to control a vehicle that was driving “dangerously at high speed”, the two gendarmes hit the trailer of a tractor when it was turning on an adjacent lane, according to the authorities.
Despite the intervention of the emergency services, a 59-year-old reservist non-commissioned officer, married and father of two children, died on the spot. An investigation, entrusted to the research brigade of the Mont-de-Marsan gendarmerie company, was opened by the Mont-de-Marsan prosecutor’s office, which launched a call for witnesses.