A pedestrian who was walking his dog on the sidewalk was fatally hit by the driver of a gray utility vehicle this Saturday in Nordausques (Nord). Many testimonies report a very violent shock, to the point of causing a splinter to fly off a brick wall present on the passage.
The gendarmes are currently trying to determine the precise circumstances of this shock. A few moments after the accident, the driver explained to our colleagues The voice of the North fell asleep at the wheel before suddenly leaving the road. He was heard by the gendarmes in their premises before being taken into custody in the afternoon.
If the Saint-Omer gendarmerie company was able to confirm the thesis of falling asleep at the wheel, samples were taken from the driver to verify that he was not driving under the influence of alcohol. The analyzes are still in progress, according to the gendarmes.