While Ile-de-France was affected by a major snowfall, a pileup occurred Thursday evening on the A6b, near Paris near Chevilly-Larue (Val-de-Marne), France has learned Bleu Paris with the Paris firefighters, confirming information from CNews. The accident occurred around 11:20 p.m. in the Paris-province direction, involving a bus, four cars and a motorcycle, firefighters said.
Five injured people were hospitalized in “absolute emergency”, Radio France learned from the Val-de-Marne prefecture. The accident also left 36 injured, including 5 hospitalized in “absolute emergency”. The motorcyclist has his vital prognosis compromised, specifies the Val-de-Marne prefecture. “The bus was lying across the road when the firefighters arrived”indicate the firefighters. 84 firefighters were involved in this intervention until 2:30 a.m. 24 machines were mobilized.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the driver of a car “lost control of his machine, forcing the driver of the coach to deviate from his trajectory. The bus then overturned on the public road, hitting another light vehicle and the motorcyclist“, explains the prefecture. The investigation will have to determine the exact causes of this accident but it is “probably due to the slippery or even unstable road surface”.
The department, like the rest of Ile-de-France, was on orange-snow alert until Friday noon, after the passage of storm Caetano which led to significant snowfall and ice during the night of Thursday to Friday.
The bus involved in this accident belongs to the Blablabus company. Contacted by France Bleu Paris, the company specifies that the vehicle was carrying 37 passengers. He left at 11 p.m. from the Bercy bus station in Paris, and was bound for Brest. Another bus was chartered to reroute certain passengers to Paris.
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