A vehicle traveling in the opposite direction caused a fatal accident on the A9 motorway in the Lyon-Montpellier direction this Saturday, at 3:30 a.m., near Roquemaure. We deplore three deaths: the octogenarian who drove the car at the origin of the tragedy, and two Drômois aged around thirty.
A vehicle driven by an octogenarian traveling in the opposite direction on the A9 motorway in the Gard caused an accident which left three dead, the emergency services reported on Saturday. The accident, involving three light vehicles and a heavy goods vehicle, took place around 3:30 a.m. in the Lyon-Montpellier direction, at Roquemaure, the firefighters said.
Shocked 50-year-old man and 16-year-old boy
Three men, an 83-year-old Gardois and two residents of Drôme, 37 and 31, died. A shocked 50-year-old man and a 16-year-old teenager were taken care of by a medico-psychological emergency unit. The driver of the truck, a 25-year-old man, is unharmed, according to firefighters.
The cause of the accident is “linked to the octogenarian driver in the wrong direction on the highway”, said Colonel Didier Ressayre, number 2 of the Gard gendarmerie group. Traffic was able to be restored to a single lane from 9:45 a.m., said operator Vinci Autoroutes in a press release, which indicated that it expected “risks of disruption” for holiday departures scheduled for Saturday in due to “emergency repairs (which) continue at the level of the accident”.
