Pas-de-Calais: a 14-year-old teenager kills himself at the wheel
The emergency services were informed of the tragedy around two o’clock in the morning. Arrived at the scene of the tragedy, just a few hundred meters from the hospital center of Beuvry, in Pas-de-Calais, they had to carry out an extrication maneuver to rescue the two young men on board the vehicle. But the driver, only 14 years old, is already in cardio-respiratory arrest and could not be resuscitated.
The vehicle crashed into a tree. Fortunately, no other car is involved. His passenger, aged 17, came to him in relative urgency. He was taken care of by the SMUR and transported to Beuvry hospital.
The exact circumstances of the accident to be determined
If the police investigators have yet to determine the required circumstances of the accident, according to the first findings, the Renault Clio arrives in the direction of the hospital center during the tragedy. The 14-year-old would have first eliminated a curb, before losing control of the vehicle. After hitting a first tree, the car then crashed into a second tree.
An investigation was opened to determine why the minor, still too young to drive, was behind the wheel of the vehicle.