A call for witnesses was launched by the gendarmerie on Wednesday to find the motorist who mowed down 18 cyclists on Thursday in a small town in the Loire, before fleeing.
The Loire gendarmerie launched a call for witnesses this Thursday to try to find the driver of the car which mowed down 18 cyclists the day before in the town of Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert. One of them, a 14-year-old young man, is in absolute emergency, and two other people are in relative emergency. After the accident, 10 others were in shock on Thursday.
The facts took place Wednesday afternoon on the departmental road 108 which connects Bonson to Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert, “at the level of the bridge spanning the RD 498”, recalls the gendarmerie of the Loire. The day before, she explained that a vehicle had “passed a group of cyclists circulating in column” on this bridge. “A driver at the wheel of her car coming in the opposite direction then found herself facing the vehicle which was overtaking before falling back to the left and colliding with the cyclists”.
43 firefighters mobilized Thursday
“People who have crossed (or overtaken) the peloton of cyclists on this road or any people who could have seen the accident in particular from the CD498 passing under the bridge are invited to get in touch with the gendarmerie”, it is specified. in the call for witnesses from the gendarmerie, which invites people with information to contact them at 04.77.52.34.77.
The group of cyclists belongs to the Espoirs cyclistes Saint-Etienne Loire club and was made up at the time of the accident of 4 adults and 14 teenagers aged 14 to 18, according to firefighters.
A total of 43 firefighters intervened on Thursday at the scene of the accident, assisted by 21 vehicles including 7 ambulances, as well as a Samu team. About twenty gendarmes also attended. Shocked, the driver of the vehicle involved had to be heard by the soldiers.
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