They remained suspended above the void for very long minutes.
Three people were rescued this Friday afternoon at the Etampes RER station after an impressive road accident, say the Essonne firefighters.
Their car was driving on Boulevard Henri IV in the early afternoon.
For some unknown reason, it swerved off the road and crashed into the gates of the station car park, before finishing its race vertically, just above the railway line, where the RER C line passes. firefighters, the car remained suspended only by its rear end.
A low wall also seemed to prevent his fall.
The driver was driving without a license
According to a police source, the 39-year-old driver does not have a driver's license.
She was accompanied by a man and a child aged two and a half.
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In total, 22 firefighters from Essonne were busy extracting the occupants of their car, assisted by eleven emergency vehicles.
A crew immobilized the vehicle while another team managed to get the occupants out of the cabin.
They suffered no injuries, say the firefighters, but escaped with a great fright.
Once the intervention was completed, tape was placed where the vehicle struck the barrier.
Traffic was interrupted until around 3:40 p.m. on the RER C tracks, between Saint-Martin-d'Etampes and Étampes.
Replacement buses have been put in place.
Electricity was cut off.
The elected official and the national police were also present on the scene.