Fatal accident in Saône-et-Loire: the driver tested positive for cocaine

The motorist who violently hit and killed a mother on a bike on Thursday September 24 in Saône-et-Loire, before being caught and attacked by her husband, was positive for cocaine, AFP learned on Saturday from a source close to the case. Contacted, the Mâcon public prosecutor's office did not respond immediately.

Late Thursday afternoon, this 33-year-old woman was trying out her new bike in the presence of two of her three children, aged 8 and 10, in front of the family home in Salornay-sur-Guye, when she was hit by a vehicle, dying on the spot.

The motorist was driving at “excessive speed”, said the public prosecutor in Mâcon, Anne-Lise Furstoss. According to the police, the cyclist was violently hit. She was thrown and one of her arms was torn off.

The victim's husband, who witnessed the accident, then joined the driver, also in his thirties, who had stopped not far from the scene, and hit him several times with a box cutter.

The driver's injuries required him to be transported by helicopter to the Dijon University Hospital, without his life threatening according to the prosecutor, but he was still hospitalized on Friday due to a surgical operation.

The Mâcon public prosecutor's office has opened two investigations, the first on the charge of road homicide, the second on the charge of violence committed with the aid or use of a weapon.