The witnesses interviewed by the Dépêche du Midi describe a “violent” shock, then stupor.
Two women aged 84 and 67 died on Thursday after being hit in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) on a pedestrian crossing by a car driven by an 88-year-old woman, we learned from the prosecution.
One of the victims died at the scene, while the other succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
In cardiac arrest when the help arrived, she had first been resuscitated by the firefighters before being transported to the hospital, where she could not be saved, specifies the Dispatch.
Shocked, the driver was also taken to the hospital.
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The facts occurred before noon.
According to the first elements of the investigation mentioned by the Dispatch, the octogenarian, driving a gray Volkswagen Polo, would not have seen, or too late, the two women advance on the pedestrian crossing.
Was she distracted by something outside?
In any case, the blood alcohol tests turned out to be negative.
The prosecution has opened an investigation for "manslaughter", which is usual in this type of case.