The teenager, who had consumed cannabis, was struck by a father’s car and his 7 -year -old son, in the town of Vougy, near Roanne (Loire).
“A drama of little avoided”. A 14 -year -old teenager was arrested after provoking an important road accident while driving a stolen car, under the drug empire and obviously without a license, said the Loire gendarmerie on his Facebook account. He had just grown priority to another vehicle led by a father in the presence of his 7 -year -old son at an intersection of the commune of Vougy, in the suburbs of Roanne, Saturday August 16, specify several sources close to Figaro.
Two other minors, aged 14 and 15 were in the stolen car. The vehicles were strongly damaged by the shock. The father was hospitalized for a slight arm injury, just like the young driver. The three teenagers immediately fled after the facts, as witnesses to the gendarmes said. All are already known to the police and gendarmerie services. After hiding in a neighboring field, the three young people were spotted hitchhiking on a nearby road to return to Lyon, where they had stolen the car, a Skoda Octavia.
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Two of the adolescents are from the Lyon agglomeration distant from the Roannais country of about an hour. The third had run away from the home where he was placed in Saint-Etienne (Loire). They were arrested by the gendarmes, who had deployed an important research device, with helicopter and dog handler.
The toxicological analyzes made it possible to establish that the 14 -year -old identified as the driver had consumed cannabis at the time of the facts. He had not marked the stop at the exit of a path, being hit by the Volkswagen T-Roc of the father. At the rear, his 7 -year -old son was not injured.
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Placed in police custody, the three young people recognized the facts. They were then given to their families, free, pending the rest of the procedure, after which they should be summoned to the justice of minors. The investigation is now continuing in the Lyon region.