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Loire-Atlantique: a vehicle slips on ice and ends up in a water reservoir, killing one person

2023-01-20T16:20:07.720Z


Four other people were in the car at the time of the tragedy on Friday morning, in the town of Saint-Léger-les-Vignes, south of Nantes. They suffer from hypothermia.


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The intense episode of ice storms this Friday morning in Loire-Atlantique claimed one victim.

It is the driver of a vehicle which slipped into a water reservoir, at the level of the place called Le Moulin Cassé, in the town of Saint-Léger-les-Vignes located south of Nantes.

The accident happened shortly before 8:30 a.m.

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"The driver, a 28-year-old man, was extracted by the emergency services and then declared dead by the SAMU"

, indicates the departmental fire and rescue service (Sdis).

Four other people were in the vehicle.

They managed to get out of the cabin and reach the bank of the water reservoir before the arrival of the firefighters.

In a state of hypothermia, they were taken care of by the town hall of the commune.

70 ice-related interventions

This intervention will have mobilized 26 firefighters who notably deployed divers and specialists in intervention in dangerous environments.

Apart from this terrible drama, the emergency services had to deal with high activity throughout the Loire-Atlantique department due to the ice on Friday morning.

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"The firefighters intervened 50 times

(between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m., editor's note)

for public road accidents, mobilizing 74 machines and 71 rescue centers"

, mentions Sdis.

Among these interventions, several were related to falls while cycling.

The ice storm was particularly severe in the Nantes conurbation, the Nantes vineyards and on part of the Atlantic coast.

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Source: lefigaro

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