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A man was tragically run over and killed by his wife as she rushed to save him from a car crash.

The Frenchman and his daughter were driving through Carville, northern France when they hit a sharp bend in the road.

He lost control of the vehicle and it flipped and rolled and they ended up in a ditch.

French Daily Uest France reports that the man and his 16-year-old daughter were unharmed in the accident and managed to crawl free from the vehicle.

But then he called his wife and asked her to pick them up and tragedy struck.

As she approached the area, she hit the same sharp curve in the road that they did and lost control of her car but as they rolled down the ravine it crushed her husband.

The wife and daughter were taken to hospital in nearby Vire.

France has previously been renowned for its dangerous roads. It made the top 10 most dangerous list back in 2002.

Since then, it has cut its fatality rate by instituting stricter speed limits and new penalties for drunk driving.

Get caught once and you will have your car confiscated; get caught twice and a special ignition test may be attached to your vehicle that monitors your blood alcohol level before letting you start the car.

In the last four years, France’s auto fatality rate has fallen by 38%, to just 75 per million inhabitants. It’s now among the safest countries for drivers, ranking 11 out of 31.

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France also does not allow satnavs which tell you where speed cameras are. Their government has put up 400 new cameras and axed many signs that show where existing ones are.

Brits have been warned it is against the law to spot them using a satnav.

Motorists who use satnavs to warn them of speed cameras while driving abroad face huge fines.

It is illegal to use them to detect fixed cameras in every European nation except the UK and Hungary.