Tragedy in Saône-et-Loire: the motorist tested positive for cocaine after fatally hitting a cyclist

The circumstances of the tragedy that occurred in Saône-et-Loire are becoming clearer and darker. The motorist who fatally hit a cyclist on Thursday, before being attacked by the victim's partner, tested positive for cocaine, we 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.

“Excessive speed”

The motorist was driving at “excessive speed”, the public prosecutor in Mâcon, Anne-Lise Furstoss, told AFP. 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.

Two ongoing investigations

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 or with the use of a weapon.