They are in a "stationary" state.
And their days would no longer be in danger.
But the two men, aged 30 and 34, mown down by a "crazy car" Tuesday evening on the sidewalk of the rue de la Croix-Nivert in Paris (15th), were still this Wednesday in a condition described as very worrying.
The first, who suffers in particular from a serious head trauma, was hospitalized at Pitié-Salpêtrière.
The second, victim of multiple cuts, after having been literally thrown through the window of a shop, is at the Pompidou hospital.
The motorist who ran them over - an 80-year-old man who was alone in his Tesla - was not injured in the crash.
Very shocked, he was first taken care of by the firefighters before the first hearings.
Left free at the end, he will be summoned to the STJA (the judicial treatment of accidents service) responsible for the investigation.
Swerving to avoid an oncoming vehicle
The alcoholic and toxicological screenings of the octogenarian were negative.
“Hot”, he explained to the police that he lost control of his car after swerving to avoid a vehicle coming in front.
“The place where this terrible accident happened, at the corner with rue Letellier, is quite accident-prone.
I have already asked several times for the redevelopment of this crossroads, where there is a poorly signaled priority problem ”, notes Philippe Goujon, mayor (LR) of the 15th district, without being able to indicate whether the road configuration of the site is in question. the accident.
The investigation, which has just begun, has not yet made it possible to confirm - or contradict - the explanations of the octogenarian.
The violence of the accident (the car traveled more than 50 meters on the sidewalk and sprayed no less than nine posts!) And various testimonies of a car racing, however, indicate that the driver has completely lost control of his vehicle.
May be under the influence of panic.
"I embody, despite myself, this necessary fight"
What relaunch the debate on the need to check the aptitude of the elderly to take the wheel.
This question had already stirred the 15th arrondissement after a “similar” accident that occurred two years ago, almost to the day, a few hundred meters from the rue de la Croix-Nivert.
Pauline Déroulède lost her leg after being hit by a car in 2018. With parliamentarians, she is working on drafting a bill for driving aptitude tests to be mandatory.
KMSP / Philippe Millereau
It was October 27, 2018 at the corner of rue de la Convention and rue de Dantzig.
A 92-year-old motorist lost control of his car and mowed down three pedestrians on the sidewalk opposite.
Among them, Pauline Déroulède, then aged 27, had her leg torn off by the crazy car.
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“After learning about this case, Tuesday evening, I did not sleep all night,” she admits on Wednesday, identifying with the victims of this new accident.
Since the tragedy which made her lose her left leg, the young woman, who is trying to relearn how to live, has engaged in a fight to include compulsory driving aptitude tests in law.
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"I embody, despite myself, this necessary fight", explains Pauline Déroulède, who has been working for a year with parliamentarians from all sides on the drafting of a bill.
“We have working meetings every two months at the National Assembly.
I will soon see the new road safety delegate.
The file is moving forward… but slowly!
"
A planned control system?
The young woman and the parliamentarians with whom she works plead for a system of control of aptitude to drive, not stigmatizing for the elderly.
"It could be compulsory tests, every ten years at first, every five years from age 70, every two years from age 80 ...", explains Pauline Déroulède, confirmed in this idea from a recent telephone interview she had with the nonagenarian responsible for her accident.
“I had asked the examining magistrate to be able to see him.
Finally, we called each other.
He confessed to me that he was aware of his declining physical abilities.
He had also planned to stop driving definitively in December 2018 ... One month after the accident!
It upset me, ”notes the young woman.
“He also told me that if there had been a law preventing him from driving, he would have obeyed it!
», She concludes.