It is a one-way artery where everything is done to limit speed.
It is even at this precise location that the first 3D pedestrian crossing in Hauts-de-Seine was tested.
And yet.
The small rue Eugène-Eichenberger, in the city center of Puteaux, was, this Sunday, the scene of a spectacular traffic accident.
Mowed down by a car, two pedestrians – one seriously injured, the other more lightly – were transported to Beaujon hospital in Clichy.
Difficult, for the time being, to determine the exact circumstances of this accident which occurred shortly before 8 p.m., at the exit of the market car park.
At the wheel of a Volkswagen Polo with automatic transmission, an 86-year-old retiree emerges from the alleys of the underground.
But once at the exit, for reasons still undetermined and according to initial findings, the motorist does not slow down or stop.
The foot a little heavy, she crosses the sidewalk then the roadway, before crossing the protective chain of the sidewalk opposite, without the slightest brake.
“She literally ended up in the facade of the Chantecoq covered market” confides a police source.
In its race, the car mowed down and injured the two pedestrians.
One suffers from facial trauma and the other from multiple leg injuries.
Both were transported by the emergency services to the Beaujon hospital in Clichy.
The driver of the Volkswagen Polo, who complained after the accident of severe pain in the rib cage, was admitted to the Rives-de-Seine hospital center.