The 83-year-old man missing since Monday in Oise was found safe and sound the next day.
No one had heard from him after he left his place by car.
Worried, her daughter had reported her absence to the gendarmes around 11 p.m., indicates
Le Parisien
.
She had clarified that the octogenarian was not suicidal.
She therefore feared an accident.
This is indeed what happened.
The missing person was discovered on Tuesday around 10 a.m. in a forest in Grandrû (Oise).
The man, stuck at the bottom of a ditch, was only slightly injured.
However, he suffered from hypothermia and was hospitalized.
He said he wanted to turn his car around because of a tree that had fallen on the road and then rolled over into a ditch.
After several rolls, the driver managed to get out of the cockpit but then fell even lower.
He finally spent the night outside when the temperature reached -1°C.
The search for the motorist mobilized a dozen gendarmes but also municipal employees from the surrounding municipalities.
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