Koba LaD tested positive for drugs after the road accident in Créteil on the night of September 10, which left one person dead. The rapper was driving a car that hit a heavy goods vehicle.
Rapper Koba LaD, who was involved in a road accident that left one dead, could be implicated. The 24-year-old artist was driving a sports sedan when he hit a heavy goods vehicle that was parked at a Total gas station on the A86, in Créteil in Val-de-Marne, on the evening of Tuesday, September 10. The collision caused the death of one of the passengers, a 30-year-old woman. Koba LaD, as well as the second passenger, also a woman, were slightly injured. They were taken to hospital for treatment. The driver of the heavy goods vehicle is safe and sound.
The circumstances of the accident involving rapper Koba LaD are beginning to become clearer. The Créteil prosecutor’s office reported on Thursday, September 12, that the artist, who “was indeed the driver” of the vehicle, was under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident. The accident reportedly occurred after one of the rapper’s car tires got a flat tire, and he “went onto the road of a gas station” and hit the back of a heavy goods vehicle, according to the details of Free Midi. According to The Dauphiné Libéréthe rapper would have arrived “at full speed”.
Koba LaD has “not yet” been taken into custody due to his hospitalization. However, an investigation has been opened for “involuntary manslaughter by driver” and “involuntary injuries by driver”, the prosecutor’s office said. It has been entrusted to the motorway CRS.
A previous road accident in 2020
This is not the first time that the rapper has been the author of a road accident. Koba LaD, whose real name is Marcel Junior Loutarila, was involved in a traffic accident in 2020 in Marseille, recalls The Dauphiné LibéréHe fled the scene but reported to police three days later. The artist was given a three-month suspended sentence, 140 hours of community service and a four-month driving ban.