Le Figaro Nantes
It's a scene worthy of a movie.
Except that it is in no way fiction, but reality.
During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, a car fell in the port of Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique).
At the wheel was a woman.
She was found, around 2 a.m., screaming in the street, wet and covered in mud, by residents of the René-Coty roundabout located near the shore.
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Called on the spot, the police collected the testimony of the 38-year-old woman, a resident of Nantes, who escaped without injury.
Acknowledging having spent the evening with a friend and having
"consumed three glasses of alcohol"
, she said that she took her vehicle alone to return home.
For some undetermined reason, his car crashed into the harbor and then sank.
She managed to
"break a window to swim back to the edge"
, indicates the Saint-Nazaire police station.
Evacuating the vehicle will take time
On the other hand, if she was able to tell her misadventure to the police, it is impossible to remember the facts and to describe the place where her car fell.
In the process, she was transported by the firefighters to the CHU of Saint-Nazaire.
At the same time, the police have started a search to find the car.
These will initially remain in vain.
"Given the tidal conditions, the instructions were given to redo research at low tide at the level of the west pier [...] probable place of the fall of the automobile"
, specifies the local police station.
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Finally, the vehicle, a Volkswagen Polo, was discovered Wednesday noon by divers.
"There was no one inside
," the police said.
As for the operation to evacuate the vehicle, it could take several days, the time in particular for the port authorities and the other services involved to coordinate.