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Paris: policewoman on electric scooter seriously injured after accident

2021-07-28T19:32:24.664Z


The 30-year-old official, who was riding an electric scooter to get to her workplace, crashed into an ambula on Wednesday


She is between life and death.

A 30-year-old policewoman, assigned to the 12th arrondissement police station, was going to her workplace on an electric scooter when she was struck by a private ambulance on Wednesday around 1:30 p.m.

In its fall, it would have violently collided with a stopped RATP bus, specifies the Actu 17 website. The accident took place on rue de Dijon, near the Bercy park.

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Seriously injured, the young woman was taken care of by the firefighters who evacuated her to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in a state of absolute emergency.

His vital prognosis was engaged, reports the site according to police sources.

She is said to have suffered from several fractures and had to be operated upon upon arrival.

"Another woman, witness to the scene and very shocked, was taken care of," said the spokesperson for the Paris fire brigade to LCI.

An investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office to determine the exact circumstances of the accident.

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On June 14, at 1 a.m., a similar accident claimed the life of a 31-year-old Italian girl, hit in the center of the capital by two young women who were riding an electric scooter.

After the shock, the two “chauffeurs”, nurses by profession, had fled.

They were found ten days later by the police of the STJA (judicial treatment of accidents), in particular thanks to a call for witnesses, and placed in police custody.

The driver had been indicted for "manslaughter aggravated by two circumstances", the hit-and-run and a deliberate breach of an obligation of safety or prudence.

Source: leparis

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