Some still scattered debris on a country road lined with embankments and trees: four teenagers died in the night from Saturday to Sunday while returning from a private party in Morbihan, after the crash, for a unknown reason, the van where they were with ten other young people, all minors. In a statement, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve gave “full support in this ordeal” to the families of the young victims, aged 15-17 years, including the driver, born in 1998, which is among the 10 injured.
One of the young, the more seriously injured, was transported at night by helicopter to University Hospital of Rennes, the others being treated in various hospitals of Morbihan. In total, twelve boys and two girls – one of which died – were seated in the car borrowed by the absence of parents in the home where the party took place. This is one of the most serious incidents involving young people driving in recent years.
There are already “two obvious causes of this accident, driving without a license (the young conductor) and vehicle overloading “, a small van Berlingo, said Sunday afternoon Yann Le Bris, deputy prosecutor of Vannes, during a press briefing at the gendarmerie de Rohan, the municipality where the tragedy took place . But “only the hearing of passengers will shed light on the circumstances of the accident,” he said.
“This is a disaster”
None of the victims has yet been heard because of their status, said the magistrate, without giving details about it. “Blood samples were taken at the driver but the results are not known” and are expected Tuesday or Wednesday, he said. The victims “are young Rohan and around,” said the prefecture. The evening took place in the town of Rohan, “within five kilometers” in relation to the accident, said Yann Le Bris.
“This is a disaster, it should not happen, “said, very moved, the mayor of the municipality Bernard Nizan. “These kids were just partying,” he continued, stressing the incomprehension at such a tragedy. “I personally know very well a family that has just lost one of his children to 17 years,” he testified.
The accident occurred shortly before 01 H 30 am, a few hundred meters from the police on the main road 17 connecting Rohan to the town of La Chèze (Côtes d’Armor), Loudéac and Pontivy in the sector. The Berlingo was happening to Rohan. At this point, the road is straight and resembles a false flat. According traces marked by AFP journalists on the spot, the vehicle appears to have crossed the road to end up in the ditch on the other side, having scraped the slope. On the ground, yellow arrows left by the investigators indicate the path of the vehicle.
Nine people killed on the roads every day
In the afternoon, a few people came out the scene of the accident, in search of information. “We try to find out how are the injured. You hear things, but we do not know if that’s true,” expressed concern Guillaume, a young man of 19 with right forearm tattooed a feather. “One of the injured is a friend of my brother. We know it very well. It is in high school, but during the summer, he works at the farm with his farmer parents,” he continued, the looking worried. A psychological cell was set up in the town of Rohan, said the magistrate.
“This accident is dramatically remember that every day on the roads of France, 9 people were killed and 100 were seriously injured. In 2014, 228 miners were killed on the roads “, said the Interior Ministry. In August 2013, five young people from 15 to 18 years old were killed in Carcassonne when the driver, who was speeding and was under the influence of cannabis, had lost control of the vehicle in which they were.
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