a driver hits three elderly people on a pedestrian crossing, stops… and flees

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The serious road accident occurred in the city center in a zone limited to 30 km/h. Thursday November 28, 2024, around 1:30 p.m., three elderly people have been reversed on a pedestrian crossing by a vehicle traveling at high speed at the level of Republic roundabout in Orsay (Essonne), learned news Essonne from a police source, confirming information from Parisian.

The driver initially stopped before fleeing

Two of these three people were transported to a hospital in absolute emergency with a vital prognosis engaged.

According to the daily, it would be a 89 year old woman and a 75 year old man. The third victim, a 74-year-old woman, was less seriously injured.

According to a police source, the driver of the vehicle in question, would have stopped after the collision before making the decision to flee.

The perpetrator and his vehicle identified using city cameras

Nevertheless, the operation of video protection cameras allowed police officers to view the driver's face as well as the vehicle's license plate, registered in Germany.

After research, the police managed to arrest the alleged perpetrator facts at the end of the day.

According to BFMTVan investigation was opened by the Évry-Courcouronnes public prosecutor's office unintentional injuries aggravated by two circumstances: hit and run and lack of license.

The suspect is already known to the courts

The investigations were entrusted to the Massy Palaiseau police district. Placed in police custody, the suspect born in 1989 is already known to the judicial services, according to the news channel.

“My thoughts, those of our entire city, are with the victims and their families,” the city mayor wrote on Facebook Rémi Darmon who indicates that he went there to “thank the emergency forces, the municipal and national police officers who immediately mobilized”.

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