A migrant from Eritrea has died after being hit by a car driven by a Briton near Calais.
The person was one of a group of migrants trying to put obstacles in the road to slow down vehicles and climb aboard them, police said.
They added the driver had reported the incident on the A16 road near the port city late on Sunday, where thousands of people from the Middle East and Africa are camped trying to reach Britain.
It is the 14th such death this year.
Local officials are treating it as an accident and said another migrant was slightly hurt.
France said on Monday Britain has a "moral duty" to take in hundreds of migrant children from the so-called "Jungle" camp.
"I am solemnly asking Britain to assume its moral duty," interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve told RTL radio ahead of a trip to London to meet Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
"There are several hundred unaccompanied minors in Calais who have family in Britain. We are in the process of drawing up a precise list and the British need to live up to their responsibilities.
"We have lived up to ours," stressed Mr Cazeneuve.
French officials have said work to dismantle the sprawling migrant camp could begin as early as this month, with residents moved to reception centres across France.
Mr Cazeneuve said last week there were up to 950 children living in the camp, many of them unaccompanied.
Campaigners say many of them have family in Britain and should be allowed to travel there.
At a previous meeting Paris, the two ministers urged a united front over the camp and the wider issue of cross-Channel security.
"We are committed to working together to strengthen the security of our shared border (and) to strongly diminish the migratory pressure in Calais," they said in a joint statement.
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