Inquiry launched after fatal car crash in France
An inquiry has been launched after a British father and two children were killed in a French car accident after ‘falling asleep at the wheel’.
Police said the vehicle veered off the road and smashed into the concrete wall of a motorway bridge yesterday morning between Dijon and Bourg-en-Bresse in the east of France.
They confirmed no other vehicle was involved in the collision.
The dead man has been named as John Crompton, 31, from Hartlepool.
His partner Makayla and the couple’s third child, thought to be aged two, survived the accident and were airlifted to a nearby hospital.
Senior regional official Georges Bos told reporters: "The crash may have been due to the driver falling asleep at the wheel or perhaps the driver was distracted by something and veered to the right."
Gendarme Captain Gilles Quintaine told the Telegraph that an inquiry had been launched to determine the cause of the accident.
He added: "We don’t know what the family was doing in France but it looks like they were on holiday because their car was packed with luggage."
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