Ille-et-Vilaine. The car catches fire on the four lanes Pontorson - Dinan, a dead

The alert was given around 17 pm and important means deployed on the four-lane Pontorson-Dinan, where a car caught fire, killing one and a serious burn.

A car caught fire while driving on the RN176 in the direction Pontorson - Dinan, this Sunday afternoon August 25, 2019, around 17 h. On board was a couple from Seine-Maritime (76). The woman, aged 70, perished in the fire of the vehicle. Her husband, who was driving, also 70 years old, burned to the third degree, was evacuated by helicopter Samu 35 to the service of burn victims of the Nantes Hospital.

This fact, whose circumstances remain to be determined - "Is it a loss of control? Mechanical failure? The vehicle ended up on the guardrail, on the right side of the road, and then tipped into the ditch, " explains Captain Dominique Filmotte, of the Saint-Malo State Departmental Gendarmerie Company - has mobilized very important assistance, including about thirty firefighters, the fire of the vehicle having also spread to a slope, nearby.

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At 1830, while the Samu 35 helicopter was still on the scene, as well as a Smur d'Avranches vehicle and many firefighters' vehicles, the traffic was still largely disrupted.

Cut in the direction Pontorson - Dinan, at the level of the Roz-sur-Couesnon interchange, the traffic was slowed down and contained on the right lane in the Dinan-Pontorson direction. Vehicles already engaged upstream of the fire had to turn around on the four-lane, then were diverted on the road joining Cancale and Saint-Malo by the coast.

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