A motorist who had fled after fatally hitting a 15-year-old cyclist on Sunday in Sainte-Florine (Haute-Loire), was indicted and imprisoned on Tuesday evening, we learned from the Puy- in-Velay.
The 33-year-old man had been identified by the gendarmerie and arrested a few hours after the events that occurred at the end of the afternoon in a town near Brioude.
Driver charged
The 30-year-old was indicted for "
manslaughter by driver, with hit and run
", told AFP Cathy Pajon, the public prosecutor of Puy-en-Velay, who opened a judicial investigation.
"
The judge of freedoms and detention (JLD) followed my requisitions for the provisional detention of this motorist who was not previously known to justice
," she added.
The magistrate specified that the death of the victim had been noted at the scene of the accident.
The time interval that elapsed between the occurrence of the accident and the arrest of the 30-year-old was too long to know whether or not the fugitive was under the influence of alcohol or narcotics at the time of the events. , according to the same source.
