According to the first elements collected on site, the victim, a resident of the right bank of Bayonne, crossed the road to the right of the T1 Tram'bus line, towards Hauts de Bayonne. The public transport was moving at this location on a dedicated track. At the level where the vehicle stopped after the impact, there is a crossing of the roadway, dedicated to bicycles.
Survival blanket
Emergency services are quickly on the scene. The RATP Dev operator's teams quickly direct bus passengers. In the rain, the BAB firefighters and the caregivers from the Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Structure (SMUR) of the Basque Coast Hospital Center can only note the death of the victim.
A survival blanket is placed to hide the body from view. Barriers, borrowed from the nearby Christmas market, were moved to protect the accident scene.
At the location of the stopped bus, a bicycle crossing is set up.
Bertrand Lapègue / “South West”
The traffic lane will remain closed to traffic for a long time, with national and municipal police directing traffic. Time for the scientific police to take the samples necessary for the investigation. Survey which will use municipal video surveillance images: a request has already been made to this effect.
Medical-psychological cell activated
The mayor of Bayonne and president of the Basque Country Agglomeration, Jean-René Etchegaray, went to the scene of the accident. He and the president of the Mobility Union, Luzian mayor Jean-François Irigoyen, sent a press release a word of “compassion to the bereaved family” as well as support for the driver of the Txik Txak network.
