by Elise (Oct 15, 2003)

On Friday, September 12th, on a road from Blois to Châteaudun, a woman had a car crash which took her life away.

It was about 3 pm when Marinette G., 54, a mother of three children, was driving to Blois. In an area where the road was straight, the car suddenly changed direction and went to the left side of the road. The car crashed into another one that was coming from the other direction. 

 The man who was driving the second car stopped, but Mrs G.‘s car went on to the other side of the road and crashed into a lorry which knocked her over into the ditch.
"I couldn’ t do anything to avoid the car", said the lorry driver to the police.
The impact was so violent that Mrs G.’s car was thrown back to the other side of the road and crashed again into another car which was following. The two cars stopped in a field.

Except Mrs G., no one was hurt. They called the police who arrived a few minutes later, but they couldn’t do anything for Mrs G. The conditions of her death remain unknown, but the police think that Marinette G. fainted while she was driving, because she didn’t correct her trajectory in spite of the first impact.

An investigation has been opened.

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I think it is an interesting article. You are right to speak about the car crash. Perhaps people will become aware of car crashes because if we don' t take care of our driving it can become dangerous.

I was reading your car crash article which surprised me. When my teacher told me that we were going to check this website out about the students that wrote in French I thought that it was going to be a disaster, because I never imagined that your English was so good. I just have a few suggestions that might be useful on your article : be more specific meaning tell the details of the accident. When you wrote " suddenly a car drove to the other lane " that was a bit unclear because a car doesn't do that by itself. If you would have been more specific meaning getting more facts I would have visualized the car crash. Well that's about it. Everything else was really good. And keep on writing.