The evening of July 10, 2022 turned into a nightmare on this portion of the National 88 which crosses Yssingeaux, in Haute-Loire. A crash between two cars killed two people and injured six others.
Head-on collision between two cars
The shock occurred around 6:30 p.m., at the exit of the city center of Yssingeaux, on the Puy-en-Velay side. Two cars collide head-on. In the one that was driving towards Puy-en-Velay, four young men. Two of them were 21 years old, they died in the accident. The other two, aged 22, were seriously injured.
In the car which arrived in front, direction Saint-Étienne, there were also four people, aged between 63 and 70 years old. One of them is slightly injured, the other three are heavily affected.
All the injured were dispatched between the hospitals of Puy-en-Velay, Saint-Étienne, and Lyon. The extrication and securing operations mobilized 35 firefighters, twelve gendarmes and 5 agents from the Interregional Roads Department.
A section of road under construction
The section of the N88 on which the accident took place was closed for part of Sunday evening. This is a section of road under construction, where the speed is limited to 70 kilometers per hour and where there is no guardrail between the two directions of traffic. The Haute-Loire prosecutor’s office is opening an investigation to try to understand the circumstances of the accident.