"I had never seen so much blood" breathes this witness still in shock.
This Tuesday, two pedestrians were seriously injured in a dramatic traffic accident which occurred shortly after 5 p.m. at 30, rue de la Croix-Nivert, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
As he descended the axis in a north-south direction, a man in his seventies at the wheel of a Tesla brand electric car lost control of his vehicle before riding at high speed on the sidewalk, violently hitting two young men passing by. .
A mad 30 m race during which he tore nine posts and damaged the front of a hairdressing salon.
One of the two polytrauma victims
The two victims were transported in absolute urgency to the hospitals of Pitié-Salpêtrière (13th century) and George-Pompidou (15th century).
The one most seriously affected was multiple trauma, the second suffered multiple cuts caused by shards of glass.
In shock, the driver, who is said to be between 75 and 80 years old, explained to the police that he had wanted to avoid a car coming in front.
Specialized police officers from the judicial treatment of accidents (STJA) were seized of the investigation.
Waiter in a nearby restaurant, Ylan was installing the terrace when he witnessed the scene.
"I saw the car go off at full speed and two seconds later I heard a big boom," he says.
When I turned around, I saw the sidewalk completely exploded ”.
Approaching to rescue, the server sees the two victims of the accident, one in his forties, the other 32 years old.
A neighborhood restaurant server
“The first had been projected into the hairdressing salon window, with a bloody stomach, and the second was on the ground, no longer moving and had a head injury,” continues Ylan.
It was a waiter from a neighborhood restaurant that I knew who was going to get baguettes for the evening service ”.
The two men were taken care of by about thirty firefighters dispatched to the site and whose intervention will last more than an hour.
This accident is reminiscent of a sad precedent in the 15th arrondissement.
In October 2018, a 92-year-old motorist lost control of his vehicle rue de Dantzig (15th arrondissement), ending his race in front of a florist's shop.
Three people were seriously injured including a young woman of 27 who had lost a leg in the accident.