This article is from page 55 of the 2011-07-12 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 55 JPG
ARRANGEMENTS have been made to transport the bodies of French couple Michel and Jacqueline Lacave after the pair died in a tragic road accident on the Clare and Galway border last Wednesday.
The elderly couple, who are understood to come from Pontvallain, just outside Le Mans in the north-west of France, were on a sightseeing holiday in the Burren when the accident took place.
The 77-year-old man, Michel, was driving a motorcycle with his 66year-old wife Jacqueline as his pillion passagener when the accident took place between Ballyvaughan and Kinvara on the N67.
The accident took place at an area known as Roo Demesne, right on the Clare/Galway border, when the motorcycle collided with a car while trying to negotiate a difficult bend in the road.
The French couple were pronounced dead at the scene while the people travelling in the car – two adults and two children – were uninjured but shaken.
Two units of the fire brigade from Gort and an ambulance from Galway attended the scene and the road was closed off for some time while gardaí conducted a forensic examination of the scene.
It is understood that the motorbike had difficulty taking one of the large bends at Roo Demesne and collided with the car, which was travelling in the opposite direction.