Argenteuil: the driver of the car that mowed down a mother and her daughter surrendered

He surendered.

The driver of the car that mowed down a mother and her daughter at a bus stop in Argenteuil on Sunday evening showed up on Monday around 9 p.m., at the Cergy police station.

This 26-year-old man, known to the police for offenses including traffic, denies having deliberately struck the two victims.

While in police custody, he said he fell asleep at the wheel of his vehicle and woke up after the shock.

Sunday evening, around 9 p.m., a mother and her daughter are waiting for the bus, rue d'Epinay.

When suddenly, a Peugeot 308, which was driving in the opposite direction, according to witnesses would have accelerated suddenly before getting on the sidewalk and crashing into them violently.

The driver would have fled before the arrival of help.

The 15-year-old is seriously injured.

She was transported in absolute urgency to Beaujon hospital in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine).

She has since been transferred to Necker Hospital in Paris.

His days would still be in danger.

His 48-year-old mother, also seriously affected, was transported by the emergency services to the Argenteuil hospital.

"A woman cried

my daughter, my daughter

"

In this residential area, usually quiet, the inhabitants are in shock. “I was at home when I heard a loud noise. I went out into the street and saw two people on the ground and a woman screaming

. The teenager was unconscious, says Moussa, a local resident, father of two children. If it is a voluntary act, it is scary. I don't want this to happen to my children. Some people spoke of a deliberate desire on the part of the driver to rush to the bus stop where another person was also located. Rachida, she understands that "the driver of the black Peugeot 308, with his yellow T-shirt tumbled down at full speed."

An investigation was opened by the Pontoise prosecutor's office to determine the exact circumstances of this tragedy. Departmental security is responsible for the investigation.