They had just spent the day with the family at the seaside and were returning home, to the city of Gant.
This Saturday, around 5 p.m., a terrible road accident claimed the lives of two forties on the A75 motorway, near the town of La Cavalerie, not far from Millau (Aveyron), in the heart of Larzac, report our colleagues from Center Presse Aveyron.
A family vehicle with four people on board made a violent exit from the road while traveling in the direction of Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme).
The violent shock cost the life of the father and the mother of the family, aged about forty, while their two children, seated in the back, came out of it almost and miraculously unscathed physically.
The vehicle reportedly rolled over several times.
After being taken out of the cabin, the two minors were however evacuated in a state of shock, by the numerous emergency services deployed, to the hospital in Millau, their city of residence.
They would be aged 6 and 12.
More than a dozen firefighters from the Nant and Millau barracks were mobilized, as were the gendarmes of the Departmental Road Safety Squadron.
Traffic was not cut off during the intervention of the emergency services.
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Still according to the departmental daily, this family was probably returning from a day on the Mediterranean coast where they had been able to enjoy summer weather.
For reasons that the investigation has yet to determine and according to the first findings of the gendarmes, the vehicle would have rolled over several times before finishing its race near the emergency lane, on the other side of the security barrier. .
A shock of great violence according to the witnesses of the scene.