The Minister of Transport initially announced that “unless there is an error in [sa] Besides, there is no victim too important. This accident is “directly linked to the degraded weather conditions following the passage of the Caetano storm”, according to a police source.
A motorcyclist finds himself between life and death after an accident Thursday evening on a highway near L'Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) involving a BlaBlaCar bus, four vehicles and a motorcycle, and linked to bad weather which affected Ile-de-France, we learned from consistent sources this Friday, November 22. Four other people are in absolute emergency and 31 are injured, categorized as relative emergencies, a police source told AFP.
All the victims were taken to various surrounding hospitals. “It appeared from the initial findings that the driver of a light vehicle had lost control of his vehicle, forcing the driver of the coach to deviate from his path”further details the police source concerning the circumstances of the accident. The bus then lay down on the road and hit a car and the motorcyclist whose vital prognosis is in jeopardy, completes this source which reveals that the screenings to which the driver of the bus was subjected “turned out to be negative”.
This bus belongs to the company BlaBlaCar and linked Paris to Brest, the transport company told AFP. “37 passengers were on board the bus, they were taken care of by emergency services to carry out medical examinations”she clarified. According to the first elements collected cited by BlaBlaCar, the motorcycle “would have lost control” before colliding with a car. “By trying to avoid the vehicles, the BlaBlaCar bus would have overturned. However, this information remains to be confirmed as part of the investigation which will be carried out by the authorities.continues the company which has set up a “psychological assistance”.
“Unless I am mistaken, there are no major casualties, no deaths in this accident”declared the Minister of Transport François Durovray on BFMTV Friday morning, specifying that “the exact circumstances” were not yet known.
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. Météo-France reported that 31 departments were still placed on orange alert for snow, ice and wind on Friday, in connection with the storm, compared to around fifty on Thursday.
Update at 2:38 p.m., a biker between life and death.
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