Overview
- Two cars collided head-on on the departmental road D603 near Eix in the Meuse, killing three people and leaving one gravely hurt in the late afternoon.
- Firefighters arrived to find three victims in cardiac arrest, and efforts to revive them failed.
- Those killed were the 25-year-old driver of the oncoming car and the 21-year-old driver and 19-year-old front passenger of the overtaking car.
- The gendarmerie says a powerful car tried to pass a line of vehicles and struck a car coming the other way.
- A 19-year-old rear passenger from the overtaking car was taken to Verdun hospital in critical condition.