He did not survive his injuries.
A five-and-a-half-year-old child “died around 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening”, announced this Thursday, Parvine Derivery, assistant to the public prosecutor of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), report our colleagues from Nice-Matin.
This little boy had been hit by an electric scooter driver shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday evening on the Promenade des Anglais.
According to prosecutor Derivery, the boy "was hit at a pedestrian crossing, on a cycle path, on the Prom ', sea side".
He had been evacuated urgently, in a worrying state, to the Lenval hospital, close to the tragedy, by the teams of firefighters dispatched to the scene.
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Witnesses had already provided the first aid to the victim, of Ukrainian origin, who was accompanied by his mother, according to France 3 Côte d'Azur.
Shocked, this one could not yet be heard by the investigators.
However, the driver of the two-wheeler was taken into custody for manslaughter.
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The forties, also slightly injured, would not have consumed alcohol according to the first samples taken by the police.
According to the first elements of the investigation, it is "excessive speed" which could be the cause of this tragedy, advance the prosecution.
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The fatal accident has in any case reacted, this Thursday evening, while the city council is held, the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.
After having expressed, on Twitter, his “tremendous emotion following the death of the little boy knocked down last night by an electric scooter”, he “wished a lot of courage to the family in this terrible ordeal”.
But the elected even writes to want to go further, by asking for a “law which obliges the registration of these machines”.
“We are studying all possible solutions to avoid these tragedies: traffic lights on cycle paths, municipal decree on pedestrian spaces… We will continue to carry out control operations but the legislator must give us the means to sanction.
Unlike other big cities, I have always opposed self-service scooters,” concludes the former motorcycle champion.