The accident occurred on the night of Saturday June 1 to Sunday June 2, 2024, around 2:30 a.m. A car, with five passengers aged between 17 and 20 on board, left the road on departmental road 1089, in Libourne, on the ring road, near the Ange bakery. The victims, “originating from the department” had “20 years for one, 19 years for the other two”, specifies in a press release the public prosecutor of Libourne, Loïs Raschel.
A fourth person was evacuated in a life-threatening emergency to hospital According to South West And France 3, she died in hospital. “A fifth suffers from numerous fractures but his vital prognosis is not in jeopardy,” adds the magistrate in his press release.
Young people on board, “a group of friends”, would be from Coutras and its surroundings, specifies the mayor of Libourne, Philippe Buisson, contacted this morning by France 3. “The violence of the shock was such that I am going to mobilize a psychological unit for first responders from the emergency and gendarmerie services,” declared the elected official by telephone toAFP.
“Complex circumstances”
For the moment, the circumstances of the accident remain unclear. “All we know is that the vehicle left the road,” specifies the gendarmerie. Philippe Buisson, speaks “a shock of absolutely extreme violence”. On Facebook, he added that “the circumstances unfortunately seem extremely more complex than a simple road accident.”
The investigation was entrusted to the Libourne gendarmerie brigade. The city’s surveillance videos should be used to try to shed light on the circumstances of this tragedy, in particular the possible presence of a third party. Departmental road 1089 was cut in both directions during the intervention. Traffic was able to resume shortly before 9 a.m.