He repeated it throughout his custody: he did not see this bike.
The driver of a garbage truck who fatally struck a two-year-old child Thursday morning in Paris (I) was placed under judicial supervision and released the next day, we learned on Saturday.
"A judicial investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office on the counts of manslaughter and unintentional injuries," said a judicial source.
Negative screening
This Thursday around 8:30 am, the 43-year-old driver is driving rue Saint-Honoré, activates, according to his statements, his flashing light and heads towards rue Castiglione. The drama occurs at this point. He does not see that a cyclist is circulating in his blind spot with his two children in the seats in the back. One of the two is unharmed. But the other is very seriously injured. When help intervened, he was already in cardiopulmonary arrest. He was taken to Necker Hospital but the doctors were unable to save him. The dad was hit on the ribs and hips.
The driver was arrested on the spot for unintentional injuries and taken to hospital.
Alcohol and drug testing was carried out.
He was negative.
The police also checked that he had the correct driver's licenses.
There too, he was in order.
“There is not much to say, loose a police source.
The instruction will make it possible to know precisely what happened.
It's a horrible drama where everything changes in a fraction of a second to a blind spot.
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