'Miracle' on the D16: Remote spot where Alex Batty was discovered walking in the pouring rain at 2am in pitch darkness four days after leaving commune – as locals say he was lucky not to be run over and killed

This is the remote country road in the south of France where a British teenager was spotted by a delivery driver after being missing for six years.

Alex Batty, 17, was picked up on the D16 – an unlit single carriageway country road between the towns of Chalabre and Mirepoix – at 2am on Wednesday after four days of walking, with locals saying he was lucky not to have been run over and killed.

He was wandering along the road in the pitch black when he was spotted by Fabien Accidini, a…