He has no memory “of the seconds or even minutes before the accident”. The driver of the heavy goods vehicle who hit several vehicles on Tuesday on the A13, killing a gendarme and injuring three others, was indicted for manslaughter and involuntary injuries by driver, we learned this Friday from the prosecution. from Évreux. Placed under judicial supervision, this young 21-year-old driver, living in Pas-de-Calais and with a clean criminal record, is “prohibited from driving a heavy goods vehicle, from exercising the profession of truck driver and will have to report his trips outside the territory national”, specifies Rémi Coutin, public prosecutor of Evreux.
“He had to drive at 94 km / h, a speed below the limits”, adds the magistrate. He had taken the regulatory breaks and was respecting the driving time. The investigation will have to determine in particular whether he was able to drive this truck at 3 a.m., whether he was able to doze off or feel unwell when his refrigerated truck hit several vehicles parked on the side of the as part of an anti-drug operation, notes the prosecutor.
The victim was married with four children.
This had led to the arrest of two people whose police custody was lifted following the accident in order to “prioritize relief for the many injured” according to the public prosecutor of Rennes Philippe Astruc. “The judicial treatment of the situation of the defendants will naturally be resumed in due time”, he specifies, refuting that the two suspects are “on the run”.
Occurring shortly before 3 a.m. on the A13 near Saint-Mards-de-Blacarville in Eure, the accident had caused the death of Warrant Officer Jean Christophe Bolloch of the Rennes research section. The 47-year-old soldier was married with four children. Seven other people, including three gendarmes, were also injured. One of the soldiers is “still in a coma” according to the Evreux prosecutor.
The Evreux public prosecutor’s office also opened a judicial investigation against X for “manslaughter, involuntary injury and endangerment of others” in order to determine whether “other responsibilities than that of the truck driver could possibly be incurred. »