Five people were in absolute emergency after an accident « grave » Thursday, November 21, 2024 in the evening on a highway in Val-de-Marne involving a bus, four cars and a two-wheeler, we learned on Friday from the prefecture and firefighters, in this department placed on orange vigilance in due to the Caetano storm.
One of the absolute emergency victims was “incarcerated” on the arrival of emergency services around 11:30 p.m. Thursday on the A6b motorway, near the town of Chevilly-Larue (Val-de-Marne), where the accident took place, a police source said. AFP.
Accident “directly linked” to the weather
“Unless I am mistaken, there are no major casualties, no deaths in this accident”declared Minister of Transport François Durovray on BFMTV Friday morning, specifying that “the exact circumstances” were not yet known.
This accident is “directly linked to the degraded weather conditions following the passage of the Caetano storm”however, specified the police source.
According to the firefighters and the Val-de-Marne prefecture contacted by AFP, 31 people were also more lightly injured and were “in relative urgency”.
In one of the photos published on X by the Paris firefighters, we see a white bus lying across the road, behind four heavily stopped cars, two of which were very damaged.
During the emergency response, 24 engines and 84 firefighters were involved.
