Nord: trois personnes âgées tuées par une voiture, colère des habitants

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Trois personnes âgées sont décédées lundi dans un accident de la route, fauchées par une voiture à l'entrée du village de Steenbecque (Nord), alors qu'elles effectuaient une randonnée sur une route dont la dangerosité avait déjà été dénoncée par les habitants. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Three elderly people died on Monday in a road accident,

00:03 hit by a car at the entrance of the village of Stenbeck, North,

00:07 while hiking on a road whose danger had already been denounced by the inhabitants.

00:13 A fourth person, whose life expectancy is estimated to be stable,

00:18 was heliported to the island's CHU,

00:20 to be specified by the AFP by the Deputy Mayor of Dunkirk, François-Xavier Bieuville,

00:25 confirming information from the North.

00:28 According to the initial information,

00:30 a light tourist vehicle made a jam at the exit of the village, he said.

00:35 The driver lost control of the vehicle,

00:38 which hit four people on the sidewalk while hiking.

00:43 The four victims were born in the 1950s, the Deputy Mayor said.

00:48 The driver was placed in custody.

00:51 According to his first statements,

00:53 he would have fallen asleep behind the wheel, Mr. Bieuville said.

00:57 But this is one of the hypotheses provided by the person himself.

01:02 According to him, the driver was not drunk,

01:05 elements that should be specified by the investigation of the Dunkirk Park.

01:09 ECHEURÉ

01:10 Two of the victims are from Stenbeck,

01:13 and two others from the village near Morbeck,

01:15 said the Deputy Mayor,

01:17 present on site on Monday morning, just like the mayor of the locality, Carole Delaire.

01:22 "I was still in the bathtub when I told my husband,

01:25 'Plus, il y a un bouchon inhabituel avec un tas de camions plus.

01:29 Il est allé voir et m'a dit,

01:31 'Plus, il y a eu un accident plus',

01:33 "testifies Sabine Cayamaret, 52 years old,

01:35 "along this very busy road.

01:38 "There were four people on the ground on the road,

01:41 "including his neighbor, seriously injured.

01:44 "The driver was parked there with a kind of 4x4,

01:47 "the car was badly damaged in front,

01:49 "and the guy was serenely posing on the phone.

01:53 "I said, 'Plus, mais qu'est-ce qui s'est passé?'

01:55 "Plus, il m'a répondu calmement.

01:57 "Plus, je me suis endormie.

01:59 "J'ai pris la poubelle plus.

02:01 "Mais c'est pas possible, sa version ne tient pas, estime-t-elle.

02:05 "Je suis écheurée, je suis en colère,

02:07 "depuis le temps qu'on réclame un ralentisseur, poursuit-elle.

02:11 "Avant de s'interrompre et de lancer aux automobilistes,

02:14 "c'est 30 ici.

02:16 "C'est 30."

02:18 The four victims, a few meters after the speed limit sign,

02:23 were used to meeting three times a week

02:26 to walk together with sticks and were part of a club of seniors.

02:30 It became the motorway.

02:32 One of them was the president of the Retirees Association,

02:36 she organized ball games,

02:38 she organized meals, dances,

02:40 she was very lively, at 73 or 74 years old,

02:44 says Pierre Dubois, 66, who has lived in Stenbeck for 20 years.

02:49 "He walked every day, in the morning.

02:52 "At least once in two, people don't respect the 30 km/h, he says.

02:58 "Here, it became the motorway."

03:01 The accident took place in Rüder, a road in the middle of the fields,

03:04 at the exit of this village of about 1,700 inhabitants,

03:07 located in a rural area on the border with the Pas-de-Calais.

03:11 The road connects the village to that of Morbec, located 4 km away.

03:16 The alert was given at 8.49 am to the firefighters,

03:19 who arrived first on site,

03:21 to indicate to the AFP Nicolas Mougin,

03:23 spokesperson of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of the North.

03:30 Four ambulances and several road rescue vehicles were deployed,

03:34 as well as two SAMU teams, according to this same source.

03:38 No other pedestrian accompanied the group of four walkers,

03:42 said Mr Mougin.

03:44 The road, cut at the time of the judicial findings,

03:48 was reopened at the end of the morning, according to Mr Bieuville.

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