After the road accident involving seven children on bicycles and a motorist, a 10-year-old girl died this Friday, June 7, said the La Rochelle prosecutor’s office. The day before, the child had been declared brain dead.
The 10-year-old girl, hit by a car while she was cycling with her outdoor center on Wednesday June 5 in the streets of La Rochelle, died, the prosecution said, this Friday June 7. After the accident, little Margot was airlifted to Tours hospital as an “absolute emergency” and 24 hours later, doctors declared her brain dead.
The tragedy also involved six other of his comrades, reports Free Midday. During a press point, the secretary general of the Charente-Maritime prefecture, Emmanuel Cayron, announced, Wednesday, a “very heavy toll” and a “testing scene for all those who saw it .”
If two children were able to leave the hospital from Wednesday, until Thursday, another child aged 10 was “in absolute emergency, still hospitalized” in serious condition in Poitiers. A 9-year-old girl, initially hospitalized in La Rochelle as a relative emergency, was transferred to Poitiers for observation. An 11-year-old child hospitalized in La Rochelle in absolute emergency is experiencing a positive change in her state of health, lists France infoadding that a fifth and final 9-year-old girl, in relative emergency, was operated on Thursday morning in La Rochelle and remains “in a stable condition”.
Psychological help
Part of the group of 12 children and the leaders were spared. But the shock of the accident traumatized more than one. “He was very scared. […] He saw the car coming, the children hit, blood, screams,” the father of a child who was not injured told the microphone of RMC. Systems have been put in place to support students and families who would like to talk about this accident in several schools in the town.
The driver, aged 83, was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital and has not yet been interviewed by investigators. She was tested “negative for alcohol and narcotics”, underlined in a press release the public prosecutor of La Rochelle, Arnaud Laraize. The prosecution reclassified the investigation initially opened for “unintentional injuries by the driver of a vehicle” into “involuntary homicide by the driver of a motorized land vehicle”.