“It's a real tragedy, we are all really saddened, sorry.
We are a bit speechless in this kind of situation, ”breathes, to the Parisian, Christian Janin, the mayor of the small town of Eyzin-Pinet (Isère), 2,500 inhabitants.
This Wednesday morning, the town was indeed bereaved by a terrible accident.
Shortly before 9 a.m., a father accidentally ran over one of his children, who was only 17 months old.
The facts would have occurred on the village square, report our colleagues from France Bleu.
A Samu helicopter, from Lyon, was quickly dispatched to the scene.
In vain, the child could not be revived.
According to local radio, the father, mother and another 6-year-old child, the victim's brother, were present at the time of the tragedy.
Extremely shocked, they were taken care of by the emergency services and evacuated to the medico-psychological emergency room of the Vienna hospital.
According to the first elements, the father had just dropped off the children
According to the prosecutor of the Republic of Vienna, quoted by France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes, the father would have reversed with his vehicle and would not have seen his child.
The regional daily Le Dauphiné Liberated specifies that the baby is the only one to have been hit by the father's van.
Information confirmed by the firefighters of Isère to Actu Grenoble.
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A gendarmerie investigation opened by the soldiers of Vienna will have to determine the circumstances of this fatal accident which affected this family who lived in the center of the village.
It could help clarify the maneuver of the driver of the vehicle, who, according to Le Dauphiné, had just dropped off his children before getting back behind the wheel.