Three French teenagers drown in freak automobile crash in swimming pool

Three youngsters have been killed when their automobile skidded off the street in southern France, went by way of a wall and crashed the other way up in a personal pool, trapping them inside.

The automobile was an identical measurement to the pool and the youngsters – aged 14, 15 and 19 – have been unable to open the doorways and drowned.

The freak accident occurred within the city of Alès within the early hours of Wednesday.

“It’s truly the height of horror,” mentioned public prosecutor Abdelkrim Grini. “It wasn’t the impact of the accident that killed them. They found themselves upside down in icy water, unable to get out. They had no chance.”

Unconfirmed experiences recommend the youngest of the three victims was on the wheel of the automobile on the time.

The accident, which occurred throughout an evening of heavy rain, was the results of an “unbelievable series of circumstances,” the prosecutor informed AFP information company.

The prosecutor described how the automobile had smashed by way of a low-level backyard wall, flipped over and landed “with all four wheels in the air”.

It was not for a number of hours that the alarm was raised and firefighters have been referred to as to empty the pool and take away the automobile. BFMTV reported that the pool was about 1.5m (5ft) deep.

A mangled automobile was pulled on to a firefighters’ truck throughout the morning and video from the scene confirmed the non-public swimming pool subsequent to the collapsed wall.

Canisters of nitrous oxide have been discovered within the automobile, in accordance with French experiences. The substance is utilized by leisure customers as it could possibly make folks really feel relaxed, light-headed or dizzy.

An investigation has been opened into the reason for dying. The three victims’ our bodies have been taken to the forensic institute in Nîmes for submit mortem examinations, AFP mentioned.