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He was coming home from work late at night.
In his car, this agent of Semitan, the transport company of the Nantes conurbation, waited at a traffic light.
It was then that a car arriving at very high speed hit him from behind.
The shock, which occurred overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday around 1 a.m. in the town of Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, near Nantes, is terrible.
Both vehicles are destroyed.
If the driver causing the collision is only slightly injured, the condition of the other motorist is much more critical.
Transferred urgently to the University Hospital of Nantes, the 63-year-old man succumbed to his injuries on Thursday.
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A death that transforms this traffic accident into aggravated manslaughter.
During their investigation, the gendarmes of the Sainte-Luce brigade, indeed discovered that the driver involved accumulated violations of the Highway Code.
First element: excessive speed.
Shortly before the tragedy, his vehicle had been spotted driving at very high speed by a police patrol which was in the vicinity.
Officials estimated that he was driving at almost 180 km/h.
Immediate appearance
Second element: the driver, agitated at the time of the arrival of the forces of order and help, shortly after the accident, was heavily alcoholic indicates a source close to the investigation at
Figaro
.
Blood tests revealed that he had more than two grams of alcohol per liter of blood during the collision.
Finally, toxicological analyzes also revealed the presence of narcotics.
It would be cocaine.
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The man responsible for the accident is 25 years old.
He has no criminal record.
Released shortly after the accident (his condition having been deemed incompatible with police custody), he was arrested on Thursday by the gendarmes after the official death of the sexagenarian.
He will be presented this Friday to a judge at the Nantes court as part of an immediate appearance procedure.
