Drama on the A8: a highway employee killed and six other people, including two police officers, injured during an intervention

Un mort et plusieurs blessés dans un accident sur l'A8. (illustration) Centre Presse – José A. Torres

This Sunday, March 3, 2024, a highway employee was killed and six other people injured, including two police officers, in an accident on the A8 near Turbie in the PACA region.

After the accident of a coach on the A6 in the middle of the night, another tragedy unfolded on the A6. A8 motorway this Sunday. At the start of the afternoon, one person died and several others injured, including gendarmes, in a traffic accident near La Turbie in Alpes-Maritimes, report our colleagues from BFMTV.

He hits the tow truck

Among the victims are an employee of the Escota highway company (Vinci Autoroutes), who died during the accident, but also six other people (three minor and three serious), including two gendarmes. One of the soldiers was seriously injured, detailed the firefighters.

In the afternoon of this Sunday, while several people were on the road securing a first accident, when a car came up to them hit head-on, specifies a gendarmerie spokesperson. Earlier in the day, heavy rainfall caused aquaplaning several hundred meters from the La Turbie tollbooth. The department was placed on yellow alert for rain-flooding, indicates Vigi Météo France.

This day full of incidents on the A8 motorway caused numerous disruptions. First of all, no less than 40 firefighters were mobilized on site as well as the Samu. The highway is still closed to traffic in both directions, according to information from Nice Matin.

The motorist responsible for the accident, who crashed into the tow truck, emerged unscathed from the collision. He should soon be placed in police custody, underlines the local daily.