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A British tourist has tragically been killed after she was run down while out for a jog with her husband.
The 35-year-old woman, who has not yet been identified, was running on Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle in Beaune, a small town in western France, on Tuesday morning when a car hit her.
After being hit at around 8am local time, paramedics who arrived just 15 minutes later found she was in cardiac arrest.
Tragically, she could not be resuscitated and died at the scene.
The driver, a 45-year-old local, was taken into custody by police, who are currently investigating the incident.
The British woman’s husband, who was reportedly in shock by physically unharmed, was treated by firefighters.
The 35-year-old woman, who has not yet been identified, was running on Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle in Beaune, a small town in western France (File image of Beaune)
MailOnline has contacted the UK’s Foreign Office for comment.
It comes just months after MailOnline revealed that a British woman murdered outside her holiday home in France was buying a small property to live by herself after serving divorce papers on her husband.
Karen Carter, 65, had viewed and agreed a sale on a charming one-bedroom cottage she planned on retiring to in the tranquil village of Trémolat.
And she had just bought a cross-breed puppy with a wealthy businessman she had recently begun an affair with, her best friend has revealed.
Beverley Needham, 69, told how her ‘beautiful’ friend was looking to move into the £135,000 property in September and start afresh in the French countryside with her new dog she had named Haku.
Mother-of-four Mrs Carter was stabbed to death in May outside a guesthouse she ran in the village with husband Alan, who had been at home in South Africa.
She had just returned from a wine-tasting party held at the home of 74-year-old Jean-Francois Guerrier, who she had begun a romantic relationship with in recent months.
Speaking for the first time, Ms Needham, originally from Manchester but who has lived in Trémolat for 33-years, told how she had dinner with Mrs Carter the night before she was murdered.
Sitting outside her large converted farmhouse, less than half a mile from the crime scene, she told MailOnline: ‘I can still picture her walking down the path to the house, huge smile on her face holding a bottle of wine.
‘She also brought me some soy sauce as I was cooking her chicken in ginger and garlic.
‘Karen was great fun, she said ‘darling, I have wine’ and plonked the bottle down on a sideboard. It’s still there, I can’t bear to move it.
‘I saw her the night before she died. She seemed very tired. I think the relationship with her husband Alan was weighing heavily on her mind.
‘She told me that she had served him divorce papers and that he was refusing to sign. She told me the relationship with Alan was over and said “I’m done”.’
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