A serious accident occurred this Thursday morning near Mandelieu-la-Napoule, in the Alpes-Maritimes. Two vehicles circulating on the A8 motorway are involved, in the direction of France-Italy. Three people are dead and one is in absolute emergency. One or more bottles of nitrogen oxide, a euphoric, would have been found on the car behind the accident.
The shock was brutal. A frontal collision took place this Thursday morning around 6:40 am on the A8 motorway at Mandelieu-la-Napoule, in the Alpes-Maritimes. Three people died and a person in absolute emergency was evacuated by helicopter around 8:15 am.
The collision involves two vehicles, according to a press release from the firefighters. For the moment, no other communication has been made on the circumstances of the accident.
According to our journalist on site, the driver of a vehicle has crossed the road due to excessive speed. The latter violently struck another car in the other direction with two women. On board, one or more baby seats were installed.
The two young women died as well as the driver of the faulty vehicle. There was a passenger in the vehicle that crossed the road, he was evacuated in absolute emergency, he is a young man in his twenties.
The prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes told France 3 Côte d’Azur that the two victims of the car having received the frontal shock, are two nurses from an establishment in the Alpes-Maritimes. They were in the past thirty and were domiciled in the Var.
We were able to reach the private hospital Arnault Tzanck in Mougins, in which they exercised their profession. They have been working in this hospital for many years in surgery surgery. They were very appreciated and very competent. The teams are in shock“, reacted the establishment.
They were mothers, as the sub-prefect, director of the Alpes-Maritimes prefect, specifies, at the microphone of Didier Brignand de France Télévisions:
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The Director of Cabinet Director of the Alpes-Maritimes Prefect, returns to the conditions of the accident.
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©FTV Didier Brignand
According to our information, one or more bottles of nitrogen oxide, a euphoric, were found on the car behind the accident. Information that the prefecture does not confirm to our team.
At this point, there is nothing to say that the driver had consumed it before taking the wheel. We do not know if there is a causal link between nitrogen oxide and the accident. The investigation should say it. A communication from the public prosecutor is scheduled for this Thursday afternoon.
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The helicopter evacuates the injured in absolute emergency.
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The carcass of the car at the origin of the accident is straddling the parapet, testimony of the violence of the shock, because the vehicle has passed over this high and more than a meter wall.
The Alpes-Maritimes prefecture also communicated on social networks about this serious accident.
A8 – Mandelieu sector – Grave traffic accident
A road accident involving 2 vehicles (frontal shock) occurred this morning at 06:40 on the A8 on the kilometric point 161, towards Mandelieu.
The assessment is very heavy:
3 deceased and an emergency injured …-Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes🇫🇷 (@prefet06) June 26, 2025
The authorities advised to avoid the sector following the accident. At 10 a.m., traffic was still paralyzed. According to Raphaëlle Burel de Vinci Autoroutes, a 20 km plug was then formed in the direction towards Nice, from the Adrets of Estérel.
The highway was cut off on three outings and traffic resumed on a track shortly before nine o’clock in the France-Italie direction then was interrupted again around 10:30 am to let the investigators work.
The secondary network was saturated and the disturbances lasted several hours. The emergency services even used a drone to make statements and experts were present to analyze the causes of the accident.
The work of the investigators on site ended around 11 a.m. The highway management teams then clean the site.
Around noon, The interchange n ° 39 (A8 / Les Adrets), is reopened to traffic in the direction of France / Italy.
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The Minister of Transport, Philippe Tabarot, expressed his solidarity with the families of the victims. The authorities have indicated that they will communicate new information in the morning on the evolution of traffic, the state of the injured person and the circumstances of the accident.
