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Car fallen in the Seine in Paris: the young driver and a deceased passenger

2020-09-28T18:50:51.000Z


Saturday morning, at dawn, a car fell in the Seine with four young people on board. One had managed to get out, the other three had


The young woman and one of her friends did not survive.

The 28-year-old driver who flipped over by car in the Seine on Saturday early in the morning, at Port Debilly, under the Pont d'Iéna (16th) with three friends on board, has died.

One of the rear passengers also died on Sunday evening at the Georges-Pompidou hospital, where he had been admitted to intensive care with a poor prognosis.

The other would always be between life and death.

Stuck in the back in this Fiat 500 three-door, they had been extracted, in cardiac arrest, by the divers of the River Brigade.

The front passenger was able to extract himself from the vehicle unscathed.

The drama took place at 6:15 a.m. on Saturday.

The driver who had ventured out with her friends at the end of a party, at Port Debilly, which was forbidden to enter, would have tried to turn around on this very narrow quay.

"We had all consumed alcohol and cannabis," the survivor told police.

The Fiat struck a bollard, a mooring bollard for boats, then tipped over into the Seine.

Saved by the inhabitants of a barge

The cries of panic of the young man, taking refuge on the roof of the car which was sinking with his friends inside, woke a family who was sleeping in their barge, moored on the right bank, at Port Debilly, opposite the Eiffel Tower.

Which family called for help and threw a buoy at the passenger to then tow them to the dock and get them out of the water alive.

The victims were raised in 7 minutes in muddy and cold water.

BSPP / K.Ply  

The police from the River Brigade and the diving firefighters did all they could to save his three friends, intervening quickly in the dark and in muddy water at 18 ° C where the visibility is a maximum of one meter in depth.

It took only seven minutes for the river frogmen to get them out of the car underwater.

In cardio-respiratory arrest, the victims were treated and then transported by firefighters to the intensive care units of three Parisian hospitals with a vital prognosis.

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The investigation, entrusted to the STJA (Judicial Accident Treatment Service) of the police headquarters, is continuing.

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