The accident apparently occurred shortly after he left the ministry. The car of Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire collided Friday evening in Paris with a cyclist who had run a red light, we learned from two sources, one police and the other in the the minister’s entourage.
Bruno Le Maire was driving his personal vehicle after leaving the ministry when “he was hit at an intersection in the 6th arrondissement, shortly after 7:30 p.m., by a cyclist who had crossed the red light”, explained the minister’s entourage to of the Parisian. It was at the gas tank that the two vehicles collided, he also indicates.
The cyclist, hit in the eyebrow arch and suffering from possible head trauma, was evacuated by firefighters to Cochin hospital, said the police Source, according to which the accident took place on rue Bonaparte around 7:40 p.m. He was in relative emergency. But according to the minister’s office, he was able to leave the hospital in the evening. For his part, Bruno Le Maire was not injured in the accident, his entourage said.
“Like any citizen in such a case, he answered the police’s questions and took an alcohol test on site. He also passed a drug test. And both tests were negative,” this Source told AFP.
