Dramatic traffic accident. Three people died this Saturday afternoon in the Vosges in a road accident, report France Bleu and Vosges morning. Three other people were seriously injured and two others were slightly. A dog is also dead.
The circumstances of the accident will still have to be clarified by an investigation. The fact remains that we know that he involved, at the beginning of the afternoon, three cars which collided at the level of the commune of Uxegney (Vosges), on the departmental road 166. Dozens of firefighters were mobilized.
“Priority is the emergence and medical care of victims and transfers to hospital structures as soon as possible,” a spokesman for firefighters told Vosges morning. Two helicopters were mobilized to transport the wounded to hospitals, specifies France Bleu.
According to initial information, one of the cars involved would have come to strike another car arriving opposite. A third car then struck the other two. Two people died in the first vehicle, the driver born in 1958 and his preserve before born in 1972. A young woman of 25, in the back, was seriously injured. In the vehicle opposite, a woman born in 1983 died on site. Two others were seriously injured. The passengers of the third vehicle are unharmed, according to Vosges morning.
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In mainland France, 3,193 people died on the roads in 2024, according to figures from the interministerial national observatory for road safety. The total number of injured is estimated at 236,000. Road safety alerted Thursday on a sharp increase in the number of deaths last month, with + 23 % of deaths compared to last year in July.
