Father and son killed in Lamborghini crash on motorway near Paris

Updated 7 September 2026 — At about 11:00 on Saturday, 5 September, a father and son died when the Lamborghini carrying them collided with another car on the A3 motorway near Montreuil in Seine-Saint-Denis, east of Paris. The Bobigny public prosecutor’s office confirmed the deaths and opened an investigation, according to TF1 Info.

TF1 Info reported that the Lamborghini struck the second vehicle before hitting a safety barrier and catching fire. An off-duty police officer and firefighters intervened, but neither occupant of the sports car survived. The prosecutor’s office identified the two men as having been born in 1963 and 1999.

Four people travelling in the other car were injured and received medical treatment. Citing a police source, TF1 Info said their lives were not in danger. RTL Infos, carrying an AFP report, described their injuries as minor and said the collision forced part of the motorway to close for around four hours while emergency crews and investigators worked at the scene.

Images shared online showed the Lamborghini in flames and separated into two sections at the safety barrier, RTL Infos reported. Belgium Pulse has not independently authenticated those recordings and is not using them to establish the sequence of the collision.

The Bobigny prosecutor’s office said the Lamborghini had been travelling above the permitted speed, according to both TF1 Info and AFP. La Dernière Heure reported that the car was rented and was travelling at 200 kilometres per hour, but neither detail appeared in the prosecutor’s publicly attributed findings carried by TF1 or AFP. Those claims therefore remain unconfirmed.

The investigation now has to reconstruct the vehicles’ movements and establish the Lamborghini’s precise speed, which occupant was driving, and whether any other factor contributed to the crash. TF1 Info reported that investigators were examining an apparent high-speed undertaking manoeuvre, but no final cause has been announced.

The case has no reported direct impact in Belgium. Its Belgian relevance is limited to public interest in a serious collision on a heavily used motorway in neighbouring France and to the circulation of dramatic, partly unverified accounts through Belgian media.

A further update from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office or the motorway police is expected only when the investigation produces findings suitable for release. Until then, the confirmed account is narrower than the headline circulating online: two deaths, four injuries, excessive speed and an inquiry whose central technical conclusions remain outstanding.