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Paris: policewoman seriously injured in electric scooter accident has died

2021-07-31T10:22:23.552Z


The 30-year-old official, who was riding an electric scooter to get to her place of work, was hit on Wednesday 28 d


The police in mourning.

Between life and death since her terrible accident on Wednesday, the 30-year-old policewoman, assigned to the 12th arrondissement police station, has not survived her serious injuries, announced the Paris police headquarters on Saturday.

Tuesday July 28, a policewoman of the 12th stop was hospitalized in absolute urgency after being the victim of a traffic accident.


It is with great sadness that we learned of his passing.

Most moved thoughts to his family and to all of his colleagues.

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- Police Prefecture (@prefpolice) July 31, 2021

While the young woman was going to her place of work on an electric scooter, she was struck by a private ambulance.

In its fall, it would have violently collided with a stopped RATP bus, specifies the Actu 17 site. The accident took place on rue de Dijon, near the Bercy park.

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Seriously injured, the policewoman had been taken care of by the firefighters who had evacuated her to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in a state of absolute emergency.

His vital prognosis was engaged, reports the site according to police sources.

She suffered from several fractures and had to be operated on as soon as she arrived.

Too long a series of accidents

"Another woman, witness to the scene and very shocked, was taken care of," said shortly after the tragedy the spokesperson for the Paris fire brigade to LCI.

An investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office to determine the exact circumstances of the accident.

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On June 14, at 1 a.m., a similar accident claimed the life of a 31-year-old Italian girl, hit in the center of the capital by two young women who were riding an electric scooter.

After the shock, the two “chauffeurs”, nurses by profession, had fled.

They were found ten days later by the police of the STJA (judicial treatment of accidents), in particular thanks to a call for witnesses, and placed in police custody. The driver had been indicted for "manslaughter aggravated by two circumstances", the hit-and-run and a deliberate breach of an obligation of safety or prudence.

Source: leparis

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