Vigneux-sur-Seine: a white march to pay tribute to Valérie, a cyclist run over by a truck

“It's not an accident.

An accident happens by chance.

There, there is no chance.

Just behaviors that we come across and that we undergo every day from heavy goods vehicles which force the passage, intimidate us ”, launches this Sunday afternoon one of the brothers of Valérie, very moved, in front of about fifty people coming. pay him homage.

Valérie Dayre, 50, was run over and run over by a dump truck on November 29 in Vigneux-sur-Seine, while she was riding a bicycle.

This Sunday, two associations of cyclists, “Un pont pour tous” and “En rue libre 91”, organized a white march to pay tribute to him.

"We wanted to react to this shock because it is a territory where there is nothing for bicycles, it is 100% cars", criticizes Jean Briault, president of "En rue libre".

A white bicycle left at the scene of the accident

The march followed rue de la Longueraie to the crossroads where the accident occurred.

On site, the organizers chained a white bicycle to a pole with a photo of Valérie and a letter recalling what happened there.

The participants in the march placed white roses there, before giving the floor to the organizers and the brothers of the victim.

Vigneux-sur-Seine, this Sunday.

Valérie Dayre was 50 years old.

"She was carried away by dangerous and deliberate behavior," considers Jean Briault.

We are deeply saddened by this drama which can affect anyone at any time.

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“Valérie was in good health, it was the joy of living.

She took care of everyone.

She was going to work in the hospital to treat people and her life was ignored, blows her brother.

She worked in the medical imaging department at Tenon hospital in Paris.

Her colleagues said she was always helpful, kind, kind.

She took care of our father, her daughter, her husband.

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"A madness of the trucks" on this crossroads

This Monday morning of November 29, Valérie was going to work by bike as usual.

“Three trucks came out of the gate of a company rue de la Longueraie, rewind his two brothers.

They followed her for several tens of meters.

She was a trained cyclist, she had to ride about 25 km / h in that straight line.

And at the crossroads, he crushed it while turning.

It is inadmissible He is at fault on everything, they believe.

We have filed a complaint.

Witnesses say that every day on this crossroads, it's madness with the trucks.

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Vigneux-sur-Seine, this Sunday.

This white bicycle was chained to a pole at the intersection where the accident occurred.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the truck would have tried to pass it when arriving at a crossroads. The truck driver turned right and mowed down the cyclist. The latter, in shock, was hospitalized and then taken into police custody. He was neither alcoholic nor under the influence of narcotics at the time of the accident. This Romanian national in a legal situation was then released. The case is still ongoing. The man could be referred to a criminal court for manslaughter.

A few days after this tragedy, on December 3, a man riding an electric scooter was hit by a truck in Chilly-Mazarin.

The 40-year-old is deceased.

According to the first elements of the investigation, he left the cycle path of the D 167, to cross the rue des Mares-Juliennes in order to continue his journey, still on the cycle path.

But when he engaged, the traffic light for vehicles turned green, the truck pulled away and hit him.