Thirteen people were injured Thursday, including three seriously, after a "Blabla bus type bus got stuck in a broken down truck", stopped on the emergency lane of the A62, in the Lot-et-Garonne.
He was carrying drilling equipment.
Lot-et-Garonne: a Blablacar bus crashes into a truck on the A62, thirteen people injured https://t.co/8kx9Z29pIK pic.twitter.com/mHbpF9YYAe
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The accident occurred around 3:15 p.m., at Mas-d'Agenais, near Marmande, in the direction Toulouse-Bordeaux, specifies the prefecture in a press release, adding that at this level, the A62 motorway had been cut in both directions Toulouse-Bordeaux and Bordeaux Toulouse.
đź”´ Situation update - Accident A62 at Mas-d'Agenais between exit 6 and 5.
✔️ All the victims were taken care of by emergency services
✔️A62 cut in the direction of Toulouse-Bordeaux between exit 6 and 5, still deviation in place.
✔️ A62 direction Bordeaux-Toulouse open.
- Prefect of Lot-et-Garonne (@ Prefet47) May 27, 2021
The prefecture reported "13 victims, including three in absolute urgency, and nine people in relative urgency."
Helicopter transfer to the hospital
The three women in absolute urgency were transferred to the Bordeaux University Hospital, by helicopter for two of them.
But their "vital prognosis would not be engaged", announced the prefecture in an updated point at the end of the afternoon.
The nine others more slightly affected were transferred by road to the hospital in Marmande.
Eleven passengers and the driver were in the bus that linked Agen to Bordeaux, said BlaBlacar.
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According to the municipal reserves of the civil security of Lot-et-Garonne, a 34-year-old woman, affected in the upper limbs, was taken care of.
Another, aged 36, was treated on site and transported to the Marmande hospital center.
Finally, “a 19-year-old young woman is being extricated.
The firefighters deploy significant means to extract it from the pile of sheet metal.
A helicopter transfer was also requested for this young woman ”.
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Shortly after 6.30 p.m., the A62 remained cut in the Toulouse-Bordeaux direction with a detour still in place, but traffic returned to normal in the Bordeaux-Toulouse direction.
The gendarmes carried out the first investigations to determine the circumstances of the accident, the prosecutor went on the spot.