“A tragedy has been avoided”, summarizes, Tuesday November 16, 2021, Captain Axel Jean, boss of the departmental road safety squadron of Eure-et-Loir (EDSR) by evoking the misinterpretation of an octogenarian on the A11 motorway, between Chartres and La Ferté-Bernard (Sarthe).
On the night of Friday 12 to Saturday 13 November, around 12:45 a.m., the Eure-et-Loir gendarmerie (CORG) operations and intelligence center received around fifty calls to report a motorist driving in the opposite direction. , in the direction Paris – province:
“Two patrols caught up with him and are brought up to him. But the driver did not understand the situation and continued to travel on the expressway, skirting the safety rail.”
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The gendarmes of the Thivars motorway platoon passed the driver and therefore attempted another strategy 15 kilometers away: “They neutralized the flow of vehicles behind a heavy vehicle which slowed down the drivers, then they made a roadblock with gendarmerie cars at Ferté-Bernard. “
The motorist then stopped. This is an 82-year-old Sarthois who is said to be suffering from Alzheimer’s. No proceedings have been initiated against him.
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