Jocelyn Quivrin, the rising star of cinema, died on Sunday November 15, 2009 in a terrible car accident. But what really happened that night?
The facts took place at the end of a rainy weekend, on the evening of Sunday November 15, 2009, in the Paris region. Actor Jocelyn Quivrin, then 30, was driving his little racing car, an Ariel Atom, and was going through the Saint-Cloud tunnel towards Paris, on the A13, when he lost control of his vehicle. The two-seater roadster without roof or windshield has hit head-on the left wall of the tunnel before being cut in two by the shock. The part in which Jocelyn Quivrin was, found several hundred meters from the other half of the car, then caught fire. A spectacular accident which lasted only a few seconds but which turned many lives upside down, starting with that of Alice Taglioni, the actor’s partner, and their child Charlie, only eight months old at the time of the tragedy. .
Several years after the accident, the circumstances of the death of Jocelyn Quivrin have still not been elucidated with certainty, and they probably never will be. The reason ? It’s simply impossible to know exactly what caused the actor to lose control of the vehicle and then precipitate his death. According to the Parisianspeed may have been a factor since the Ariel Atom driven by Jocelyn Quivrin had enough horsepower to go up to 240km/h. Moreover, when help arrived on the spot, the speedometer of the roadster was frozen at 230 km/h. But nothing can ensure that it was the speed at which the vehicle was traveling since the needle could have been moved by the shock of the impact and certain sources affirmed shortly after the accident that Jocelyn Quivrin was traveling at 97km /h.
Still, the Ariel Atom is a vehicle as powerful as it is dangerousas reported by the owner of one of the 27 models homologated in France. “The problem with the Atom is that it doesn’t react like a classic car. All you have to do is slippery when accelerating on a white strip, for example, and if you go a little faster, you go straight into the decor”. On the evening of Jocelyn Quivrin’s death, the rain was on the agenda, possibly adding to the speed factor to form a fatal combo for the thirty-something. the Parisian also reports that just before the accident, the roadster had overtaken a motorist who had estimated his speed at 160km/h. The most likely thesis is therefore that the accident was caused by a loss of grip in the rain.
Jocelyn Quivrin died instantly
The other question that will probably not be answered is related to possible alterations of Jocelyn Quivruin’s abilities that could have been caused by certain substances consumed before driving. However, there is no indication that he was under the influence of any substance, so it remains at the stage of speculation. Indeed, as reported by the Huffington Post at the time thanks to the interview of a police officer working on the file, “the state of the body does not allow, a priori, to take additional samples to check for the presence of alcohol and/or narcotics”. However, an autopsy was carried out and allowed the relatives of the victim to know thathe did not suffer in the accident. “The autopsy shows that the young man died instantly, of an extremely serious head trauma following a violent and brutal shock.. Very small consolation in the face of a life cut short so suddenly. After being noticed in the wolf empire or 99 FrancsJocelyn Quivrin was working at the time of his death on a screenplay to pass, for the first time, behind the camera.