It was 8:30 p.m. this Saturday evening at the Pierre-Timbaud roundabout in Gennevilliers when emergency services intervened for a serious traffic accident. A man who was traveling on a scooter on Avenue Marcel-Paul would, according to the first information collected, run a red light before hitting the second train of the T1 tramway, which crosses at this location via the central reservation of the roundabout. point.
Presenting a head trauma and a significant wound to the head, the victim was transported to Beaujon hospital in Clichy with a life-threatening prognosis. But when emergency services arrived at the scene of the accident, the tram stopped. The machinist, who was making the journey from the Asnières – Les Courtilles station to Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), seems not to have heard the shock since he continued his route without noticing Stop.
It was by contacting the tram line’s on-call manager that the police learned that the driver was at the depot. He will be taken later in the evening to the Gennevilliers police station to be questioned about the circumstances of the accident and to be subjected to alcohol and drug testing, as is the procedure in such circumstances. The analyzes were negative.
According to his initial statements, the machinist did not see the scooter he hit and did not hear any suspicious or unusual noise prompting him to stop.
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