Le Figaro Nice
Like the thousands of small veins that crisscross the Maralpine geology, there are many cliffside roads in the department.
Often spectacular and of grandiose beauty, they can also be formidable.
A family had the chilling experience of it on Saturday at the end of the day, in the town of Toudon, near Nice.
While traveling in a light vehicle on Departmental 17, a little before 6:30 p.m., this couple in their twenties and their one-month-old infant were hit by a rock weighing about one ton. who fell off the cliff.
The sky has, so to speak, fallen on their heads.
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In their misfortune, the three victims nevertheless emerged unscathed, miraculously.
Only the father of the family was slightly injured in the knee.
All were taken care of by the firefighters and hospitalized as a precaution at the Pasteur hospital in Nice.