Bad surprise for a 22-year-old student who, the day before New Year’s Eve, bet on the wrong car for her carpool.
Orientation problem. As our colleagues from France Bleu tell us, a 22-year-old young woman had a horrifying story to tell when she was finally able to reunite with her family over the holidays. On Christmas Eve, this young student got into the car of a carpooler to join her family in the town of Thénac, in Charente-Maritime. Given the price of train tickets and the strikes that disrupted the end-of-year celebrations, the carpooling has established itself for many as a good solution in order to be able to arrive at your destination while making the journey profitable for car owners.
Only for Juliette, what should have been a leisurely drive to bring her to Charente-Maritime quickly turned into a nightmare. His journey was to take him from Annecy, in the south-east of France, to Thénac, some 7.40 hours away. And by taking a driver with a rating of 4.9/5 on one of the flagship carpooling applications, Juliette told herself that she would arrive at her destination without any problem. Once in the car and ready for her 90-euro trip, the 22-year-old made sure that the destination displayed on her driver’s map was indeed Thénac, in department 17… only it’s towards Thénac, in the 24, more precisely in the Dordogne, that the driver headed.
Lost in the middle of nowhere
As the journey progresses, the road therefore turns into a trip of anguish. Still according to France Bleu, in addition to Juliette, another passenger in the back tries to get the driver to change lanes. “I really didn’t feel safe. Especially since one of the passengers in the back was completely drunk, he was really weird, talking very loudly, as if he was on drugs“said the young woman to France Bleu. Add to that a driver who speeds, gets flashed and ostensibly gets angry with her passengers, and we already get a nightmarish day. Not to mention the fact that the driver had entered the wrong address in her GPS and didn’t care. “She looked at us and told us that it doesn’t matter, she was going to this Thénac there, period. Too bad for us“explained Juliette. Abandoned in the middle of the night in the middle of the Dordogne, the young student waited for a taxi for 2 hours to go to Bergerac where she took a hotel before being able to arrive, on December 24 at 3 p.m., in Thénac. .. the good one this time.