Start of an eventful vacation for this family, part of Paris towards Morocco. While taking a break on a highway area around 4 am, the driver and her daughter leave without the mother, “forgotten” on the rest station.
Blurred and imprecise declarations, three hours after
It was only around 8:30 am on Saturday morning that the driver ends up noticing the absence of his partner, and contacted the gendarmes of the Landes.
He explains to them that he forgot it somewhere on the highway … without remembering precisely where. His testimony turned out to be blurred and imprecise, complicating the research of the police.
The gendarmes first searched the sector indicated, but without success. According to their statements to France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, “Man no longer knew neither the hour nor the exact place of the judgment“.
The story of the 22 -year -old couple’s daughter did not help to lift doubts. The investigation revealed that the car had made several stops during the trip, which still complicated the location of the woman.
Geolocation ultimately allows you to find the woman
It was ultimately thanks to the geolocation of the six-year-old phone that the authorities were able to find her, on a highway area in Pamproux, in Deux-Sèvres, about 300 kilometers away.
She had been waiting for it since 4 am and had ended up calling the gendarmes. The driver was invited to come back to his steps to come and collect his wife. An investigation was opened by the police to clarify the circumstances of this forgetfulness.
Can we really forget a person present with you?
This anecdote ready to smile. One can only wonder if the man did not voluntarily left his wife, before leaving. Asked about the veracity of such a forgetfulness, Dr. Panson, a neurologist, shares his opinion.
“”This funny story recalls other more tragic of it where a baby is forgotten in a car in the heat wave, which unfortunately happens every summer. This shows that the brain, due to stress, of mental overload, of particular psychic circumstances, can happen to blackout and oblivion “ he details first.
The “forgotten baby syndrome” was the subject of research in 2020. Scientists then estimated that: “In most cases, these episodes concern adults whose psychic and cognitive functions are perfectly intact”. The phenomenon of the “forgotten baby” would also affect anyone, both men and women, regardless of their social category. On the other hand, several factors would promote this situation such as stress, overwork or unforeseen events that change the course of the day.
In the same sense, our expert a priori dismisses a pathological cause. “”This can in no case be akin to a pathology. If particular circumstances explain these dramas – more or less serious – one cannot invoke the disease, to explain them“He concludes.