A few days after the tragedy that occurred near Dallon on Monday February 23, 2026, the investigation allows us to clarify a little more the circumstances of the accident which cost the lives of two residents of the hamlet of Canisy, attached to the commune of Hombleux.
Yolande Bourne, 69, and Pascale Druszcz, 66, were driving Pascal Druszcz in a car without a license. The latter was taking his neighbor to a medical appointment in Saint-Quentin. A few kilometers away, shortly before the place called l’Épine de Dallon, they were hit head-on on the straight by a motorist who was traveling in the direction of Ham.
This resident of Itancourt was on his way to work. According to the first elements of the investigation, after overtaking, he violently hit the victims’ vehicle, before colliding sideways with the car of an administrative agent from the Saint-Quentin police station. Aged 37, the latter was airlifted to the Amiens University Hospital in serious condition.
An open investigation
As for the 32-year-old driver involved in the accident, he was not injured. However, he was briefly hospitalized for check-ups before being taken into police custody. At the end, he was presented to the public prosecutor’s office this Wednesday, February 25, 2026. He will be summoned before the criminal court as part of a deferred appearance procedure. “Pending his judgment, set for April 10, 2026, he was placed in pre-trial detention,” specifies the Saint-Quentin public prosecutor’s office.
The qualifications retained are heavy: involuntary road homicide, involuntary road injuries with ITT of more than three months, damage to the integrity of a corpse and prohibited carrying of a category D weapon.
More than 3 g of alcohol in the blood
Behind these qualifications, there are particularly damning elements. The driver had an alcohol level greater than 3 grams per liter of blood, or six times the authorized limit.
But another fact, even more chilling, led the magistrates to uphold the attack on the integrity of a corpse. According to our information, after the collision, the suspect threw stones towards the bodies of the victims lying on the road.
A profile already known to the justice system
The man appears to have long-standing depressive behavior. A context which in no way excuses the facts, but which sheds light on a journey already punctuated by violent episodes.
Last October, after having assaulted his sister, he took refuge in his home. He fired a gun before barricading himself, forcing law enforcement to secure the scene all night. It was only in the early morning that he was arrested. He was due to appear in mid-March before the Saint-Quentin criminal court for these acts of violence. His current pre-trial detention will allow him to be made available to justice in this case as well.
