Road drama, this Tuesday morning, along the departmental 113. A biker died around 9 a.m., following an accident at Port-Marly (Yvelines), a few meters from the town hall.
The victim, from Jouars-Pontchartrain, would be around sixty years old.
In circumstances that have yet to be confirmed, the motorcyclist who was traveling at a moderate pace, attempted a maneuver between two cars and a heavy goods vehicle, arriving at a crossroads located on avenue de Saint-Germain, near the town hall. .
He found himself under the wheels of the truck, a 28-tonne machine, whose driver, in a state of shock, was taken care of by the emergency services, dispatched in large numbers.
The “force maneuvers” cell deployed
The departmental fire and rescue service (Sdis) mobilized around twenty firefighters, nine vehicles and a team specializing in “force maneuvers”.
Unfortunately, they could not do anything for the biker, crushed under the vehicle.
Alerted by his municipal police, the mayor of Port-Marly, Cédric Pemba Marine, immediately went to the scene.
In the middle of the morning, traffic was still cut off on this very busy axis.
"It's a real tragedy, comments the elected MoDem on the phone this Tuesday, his voice drowned out by the sirens of emergency vehicles.
We had not experienced an accident of this magnitude for a long time.
This is unfortunately the lot of municipalities crossed by truck trains
(sic)
all day long.
I have twenty heavyweights in front of me at the moment… This density remains a major subject for a city like ours.
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The responsibility of the heavy goods vehicle driver is, for the time being, not mentioned.
The investigation was entrusted to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye police station.
