A 15-year-old high school student was crushed to death by a forklift this Friday during an observation course on a construction site in Montpellier (Hérault). The drama arouses immense emotion within the academy.
A terrible tragedy took place on a construction site in Montpellier (Hérault) this Friday, April 17. A 15-year-old young man who was doing an observation internship in a building and public works (BTP) company died in an accident. Carole Drucker-Godard, rector of the Montpellier academy, announced the news by sharing her “deep sadness”: “The rectorate of the Montpellier academy has launched an administrative investigation in order to shed light on the circumstances of this accident,” she said.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the accident occurred very early in the morning, shortly before 8:30 a.m. The young man, educated at the Sainte-Marie private vocational high school in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, had been sent to a construction site managed by the company where he carried out an observation internship. According to a police source, cited by our colleagues from Le Parisien, the high school student, “driving a forklift, lost control of the machine” before being ejected from the vehicle. The young man found himself crushed by the machine.
“The victim declared dead” on site
Emergency services arrived on site at 8:30 a.m. The Gard firefighters confirm that they have brought “rescue to a 15-year-old young man stuck under a forklift”, by mobilizing a particularly important emergency system, including “an ambulance, a firefighter nurse, a road extrication vehicle (to lift the forklift), a command vehicle as well as the medical team from the Bagnols-sur-Cèze SMUR”. In a press release, the firefighters indicate that the “victim was declared dead by the doctor on site”.
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