The images are impressive. A bus caught fire this Sunday evening on the Paris ring road, at the Porte d'Orléans (XIVth arrondissement), without causing any injuries, reported BFM Paris.
The facts would have occurred shortly before 22 p.m. on Sunday evening. No passenger was on board this bus line 62, according to the RATP, which specifies that he was heading to the depot at the time of the facts.
Fire of a ratp bus in Porte d'Orléans.
It would be an Iveco urbanway Hybrid from Aubervillier.
Firefighters brought the flames under control. pic.twitter.com/nRurG1LVD9
— Spotting_92 (@spotteur92) September 3, 2023
Traffic remained slightly disrupted around midnight on the ring road at the height of the incident, this Sunday evening, according to the real-time traffic site Sytadin.
On the night of August 16 to 17, a fire had already broken out in a RATP bus depot. In question, according to the group: "a short circuit at the level of the cockpit of a bus". The penultimate episode in a long series of accidental bus fires in the Paris region.
In 2022, a multiplication of this type of event had pushed the Parisian transport authority to withdraw Bolloré's 149 electric bluebuses from circulation. Other incidents have occurred since then, involving different models.
