US EditionArdèche Fatal Accident: the Driver Was Driving at an "Excessive" Speed, According to the First Elements of the Investigation
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In Ardèche, the first testimonies confirm the hypothesis of an excessive speed at the origin of the accident which cost the lives of five young people. A speed incompatible with this road, known to be sinuous and feared by those who regularly take it. Their car fell 25 meters at the bottom of a ravine and burned. It was their comrades, who followed them on board another vehicle, who gave the alert. It took 48 firefighters to extract the vehicle.…
According to the parquet, the car was driving at "excessive speed on a narrow and winding road".
The speed would be in question, in the accident that cost the lives of five young Rhodanians, this May 1, 2026, in Ardèche, according to the first elements of the investigation. #JT13h
Their vehicle burned completely after a road accident in northern Ardèche. Five young people between the ages of 17 and 20 - four men and one woman - were killed on Friday after an accident.
What was supposed to be a festive outing ended in drama. On Friday 1 May, a car carrying five young people aged 17-19, native to Cailloux-sur-Fontaines, Pusignan and Saint-Priest made an ambush before falling into a ravine in the valley of the Cance between Vernosc-lès-Annonay and Talencieux. No one survived. The mother of a young woman who was in the same convoy and attended the scene tells.
The accident vehicle made a road exit on a departmental track. It ignited after a drop of 20 meters, causing the death of its five passengers.
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