Par
Jean-Marc Aubert
Published Oct 1, 2024 at 7:37 a.m.; updated Oct 1, 2024 at 9:49 a.m.
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Fatal accident on the A709, this Tuesday around 6:30 a.m., near Port Marianne, at Montpellier, in the Béziers-Nîmes direction: a dead man and one lightly injured.
In circumstances that gendarmes of the Poussan motorway peloton will endeavor to determine, while a sheet of fog enveloped the road axis, a car hit a heavy goods vehicle from behind, at high speed, on theA709at the Marché du Lez, between the Montpellier-Sud and Montpellier-Est ramps.
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The shock was very violent and when the firefighters arrived from Sdis 34 and Smur-Samu, the 20-year-old driver of the car was dead and the front passenger, aged 25, was slightly injured and also in a state of shock.
The young victim was stuck in the completely crushed car and was extracted after an extrication operation. He had stopped living.
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The 40-year-old truck driver of Hungarian nationality who was traveling in the right lane was also shocked. He is comforted by the rescuers. Traffic is disrupted towards Nîmes. It cannot be ruled out that the driver of the car dozed off or fell asleep, or that he saw the obstacle at the last moment in the fog.
Survived passenger
The passenger, a true survivor of this road tragedy, will be able to be heard by the police in the morning at the Montpellier University Hospital, where he has just been admitted. According to our information, he lives in Nîmes.
Another accident on the A9
An accident occurred upstream, on the A9 motorway, shortly after the exit 33 from Sètein Poussan, at the Gigean rest area, towards Montpellier. Firefighters, police and patrol officers from Vinci Autoroutes are on site, a major traffic jam has formed.
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