On the evening of Thursday, July 17, 2025, a serious accident occurred on the A83 motorway and its surroundings in Loire-Atlantique.

Two people, a mother and her son, were killed, and two others suffered minor injuries.

A fifth person was unharmed, “but very shaken,” TF1info reported.

If in June there was  a terrible accident involving a bus on the A81 motorway  , which, according to preliminary reports, killed at least four people and injured 45 people

This week, a collision involving several vehicles near the A83 motorway claimed the lives of two people. The incident occurred on Thursday evening, July 17, 2025, at around 11:47 p.m., near the town of Les Bignons  in Loire-Atlantique  . Firefighters, who were called to the scene just minutes after the accident, responded quickly and confirmed the deaths and injuries of the participants, as reported by  TF1info  the next day.

The accident began with a collision between two cars on the RD 137, which runs along  the motorway  between  the Bignon toll  booth and the entrance to Nantes,  France Bleu reported  on Friday, July 18.  “A car carrying a man and a woman in their sixties and another car carrying a woman in her thirties and her 3-4-year-old child collided on the motorway,”   a spokesman for the Loire-Atlantique departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS)  told TF1info . “The mother got out of the car with the child and started to cross the lanes  ,” carrying her son in her arms, as there were no street lights at that location. A third car, driven by a woman in her thirties, then drove up and hit them. Both died, while the driver escaped the accident  “unharmed but very shaken  . ” According to an SDIS spokesman, two people in their  sixties suffered minor injuries.

Accident in the Loire-Atlantique: investigation launched

Although the reasons why the mother abandoned her car and drove onto the highway remain unknown, the Nantes prosecutor’s office intends to establish the exact circumstances of the tragedy. An investigation has been launched to shed light on this horrific accident.

Toxicology tests were carried out on the deceased young woman, but the results are not yet available.  France Bleu  reports that it took police several hours to identify the two victims because the mother had no documents. She was only identified after it was discovered that her documents were in her vehicle, a broken-down car located on a nearby departmental road, not on the highway. Further information in this case is still awaited.