No Calais. One dead and several injured in an accident on the A26 motorway. sport
A 75-year-old man died and several of his relatives were injured on Saturday August 13 in an accident on the A26 motorway towards the Pas-de-Calais coast, firefighters and gendarmes said. This accident, which occurred in the middle of a day classified red at national level due to the crossover of holidaymakersresulted in several kilometers of slowdowns.
Saturday at midday, two vehicles driving together, coming from Meurthe-et-Moselle and heading towards the Channel coast, collided a few hundred meters from the Setques toll (Pas-de-Calais) , said the Saint-Omer gendarmerie platoon. A third car was also hit, according to the same source.
73-year-old woman seriously injured
The passenger of one of the first two cars, a 75-year-old man, died, and the driver of his vehicle, aged 73, was seriously injured and rushed to hospital, firefighters said. It would be his wife, according to Voice of the North which specifies that the couple was going on vacation with members of their family, including two children, traveling in the second car.
In addition to the driver, five people traveling in the three vehicles were injured more lightly according to the firefighters: two thirty-year-olds, a three-year-old girl, and a 65-year-old man and woman. They were all transported to the nearby Helfaut hospital center, near Saint-Omer.