Tours: a 19-year-old driver indicted for road homicide after the death of three young people

The driver of a car who hit a tree during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Tours, causing the death of three young people, was indicted on Friday for road homicide, according to the city's public prosecutor.

“The driver was indicted for aggravated road homicide and placed under judicial supervision in accordance with the requirements of the prosecution,” said the prosecutor, Catherine Sorita-Minard, on X. The 19-year-old driver did not hold a driving license, the magistrate announced the day before in a press release. The only survivor of the accident, slightly injured, she was placed in police custody “for aggravated road homicide for two circumstances, lack of a driving license and excessive speed”.

A Renault Clio “hit a tree very violently”

Wednesday around 11 p.m., a Renault Clio occupied by four people “hit a tree very violently” on a boulevard in Tours, leading to the death of the three passengers, according to the magistrate. According to the first elements of the investigation, the driver from Indre-et-Loire “was traveling at high speed and lost control of the vehicle”, according to the same source.

The young woman had no criminal record and alcohol and drug tests came back negative, she said. The three young men who died were 17, 18 and 19 years old, according to firefighters. Due to the violence of the impact, the car was cut in two and thrown several meters while a thick fog fell over the city, according to the media Ici Touraine.