How did the artist Alfred Manessier die?

The painter Alfred Manessier died at the age of 82 on 1 August 1993 in Orléans, France, as the result of a car accident. Just before his death, the artist painted the Painted Spaces of the Sea —a depiction of the Baie de Somme estuary in three monumental variations that concluded the artist’s retrospective at the Galeries Nationales at the Grand Palais in Paris from October 1992 to January 1993.