A horrific accident, resulting in the deaths of four people and almost twelve others injured occurred on Saturday, 25 June 1932. A 5.5-kilometer (3.42-mile) public roads course named "Circuit de Lorraine at du Grand-Couronné", near the village of Seichamps, not far from Nancy, department of Meurthe-et-Moselle in north-eastern France, was the stage of the I Grand Prix de Lorraine. The main event was a race for Grand Prix cars held over two heats of thirty laps each; a twenty-three-lap voiturettes race and a motorcycle event were also part of the program.<br /><br />After starting the fourth lap of the first heat, the French driver Émile Tétaldi lost control of his #22 2-litre Bugatti T35C, which skidded right round, crashed through a fence and somersaulted, hitting at high speed a group of spectators. Four of them were killed, many others including the driver Tétaldi, were taken to both the Hôpital Central and the Hôpital Sedillot in Nancy.<br /><br />The four spectators who lost their lives were:<br />- M.me Lucien Lange, 31, who lived in the nearby village of Pulnoy, wife of a famous French racing cyclist;<br />- her eight-year-old son Louis-Roger Lange;<br />- another young boy, Jean-Félix Bernard, aged seven, from Art-sur-Meurthe;<br />- a young man, whose name was not released, who passed away several hours later at Nancy hospital.<br /><br />Amongst the injured spectators were another unnamed child of the Lange family, three soldiers named Delfolie, Lecat and Herter; Mr. and Mrs. Roule from Nancy; Jean Rémond from Art-sur-Meurthe; M. Chaton from Homécourt; and three ladies named Raynaud of Nancy, L'Huillier of Châtenois en Alsace, and Gueldon of Maxéville.<br /><br />R.I.P
