A Sunday. The peninsula barely awake. And somewhere on a road outside Saint-Tropez, a life cut short.
A two-wheeler rider died following a road accident near the village. The exact circumstances are being investigated by the authorities. No other victims are mentioned in the available information.
The timing matters, even if no one wants to say it out loud. The season is in full swing, and the roads linking Saint-Tropez to Ramatuelle, Gassin or La Croix-Valmer carry a different kind of traffic now: rental scooters, motorcycles, drivers who have never seen a Var hairpin at speed. The geography here is beautiful and unforgiving in equal measure.
The gendarmes of the Gassin-Saint-Tropez brigade are handling the investigation. Our thoughts go to the rider's family.
