She will not have survived her injuries. The cyclist, hospitalized in intensive care with a life-threatening prognosis after being struck with two other people by a vehicle on rue Alsace Lorraine in Rouen around 8:30 a.m., died. A second cyclist was seriously injured while the third was slightly injured.
“Chase”
The driver of the vehicle, a van according to the local press, was arrested around thirty kilometers north of Rouen by the gendarmes around 10:15 a.m. after “a chase” according to the prosecution. She was born in 1977. Still according to the public prosecutor, “witnesses reported possible suicidal intentions”. Weapons were found in his vehicle.
The street in the center of Rouen where the events took place is two-way for buses but one-way in a single lane for cars and bicycles. “This morning around 9 a.m., a vehicle hit a person, then two others further away, in the streets of downtown Rouen, before continuing its journey out of Rouen,” explained the Rouen public prosecutor, Sébastien Gallois in the morning.
Screams then “absolute terror”
Tuesday morning, technical and scientific police officers carried out on-site surveys while the PJ, in charge of the investigation, questioned the traders.
A local resident interviewed by AFP said he heard “loud screams coming from rue Alsace-Lorraine” and saw “a crowd of around ten passers-by gathered around an inanimate person on the ground” next to a bicycle. .
-This witness saw police cars arriving “from every street corner, and leaving at full speed, in a chase scene”, before the arrival of emergency services who remained on site “for a long time” in the street cut off from traffic.
The mayor (PS) of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, expressed “absolute terror” on the social network X and thanked the emergency services.
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