Three spectators struck by a car died this Saturday during the Fourme automobile rally, in Puy-de-Dôme.
The Fourme rally turned to drama this Saturday. In the town of Saint-Just, a competitor has lost control of his vehicle and struck several spectators. The balance sheet initially brought to two dead has increased a few minutes later, a person seriously injured in his care having died in the hospital.
“” The three victims are two brothers aged 70 and 60 and a 44 -year -old father “, Specifies the Clermont-Ferrand prosecution, thus relayed by the newspaper La Montagne. A survey in flagrance for manslaughter has been opened and entrusted to the gendarmerie, indicates the rest of the Republic of the Republic Laure Moisset.
In shock, the 22 -year -old pilot who mowed the said spectators was hospitalized in Ambert, like her co -pilot, aged 51. Toxicology analyzes will be carried out there. “” Several people shocked By the accident were also taken care of by the emergency services, blows the prefect of Puy-de-Dôme, Joël Mathurin, who went to the very scene of the disaster.
A rally already bereaved last year
“” The tragic accident on Saturday morning took place around 11 a.m. in the town of Saint-Just, a wooded territory south of Ambert, in the east of the departmentDixit the prefect during a press briefing. A dozen people were involved. I can tell you that these people were indeed where there were red rumals, but it will be up to the investigation to determine the circumstances and the reasons why these people were there. “”
The areas reserved for the public and thus considered secure are bounded with green ribs indeed. The drama was established ” almost in a straight line, not in a tight turn “, Ensures Colonel Moulin, commander of the Puy-de-Dôme gendarmerie group. Already last year, the Fourme rally had been bereaved. “” The 42 -year -old racing commissioner had been killed while he was intervening after an accident “Recalls the mountain.
