A road collision, which involved a vehicle driven by the humorist, took place on Friday February 10 around 7 p.m., making, in addition to the latter, four injured, including three serious.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
At the start of the evening, Friday, February 10, the actor and director Pierre Palmade, 54, was behind the wheel of his vehicle on the D372 at the level of Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of the Seine-et-Marne, when the accident took place.
“The first investigations carried out, it resulted that a vehicle led by the humorist Pierre Palmade would have come to hit a vehicle circulating in the opposite direction which transported a man and a pregnant woman, as well as a child aged 6 years, “said Melun’s prosecutor. “A third vehicle would have come to hit that of this family, as part of a suraccident,” he added.
“We hope to hear people quickly, hoping that [they] will get out of it without too heavy consequences,” a source close to the investigation told agency.
How are the victims of the accident doing?
Friday evening, the pregnant woman and her brother-in-law, who led the vehicle struck by that of Pierre Palmade, were, like the humorist, was transported by helicopter to the hospital. The 6 -year -old child (the driver’s son), who was evacuated by road, was between life and death on Friday evening.
The pregnant woman, in his thirties, lost her child, said the Melun prosecutor’s office earlier on Saturday. His days, those of his brother-in-law, aged forty, and his son were still in danger on Saturday evening, according to a police source.
An 80 -year -old man, who was driving the third vehicle and struck the family’s car, was slightly injured.
Pierre Palmade, seriously injured, “was aware when the rescue arrives,” said the prosecution. According to his relatives, he had been admitted the day before “in serious condition at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital and” placed in resuscitation service “. His life is no longer in danger, announced, Saturday in a statement to AFP, his family, which said that the relatives of the actor “think of the people affected during this accident and await reassuring news”.
Where are the first investigations?
According to a police source, witnesses reported that two passengers in the car of Pierre Palmade, aged in his twenties, had fled after the collision. Investigations are underway to confirm their presence at the time of the accident, said the Melun prosecutor’s office.
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In addition, “toxicological analyzes have highlighted that Pierre Palmade was led under the influence of narcotic (cocaine)” , reported on Saturday the public prosecutor of Melun, Jean-Michel Bourlès.
In 1995, Pierre Palmade was sentenced for cocaine consumption.
An investigation was opened for homicide and involuntary injuries which led to a total incapacity for work greater than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotic products, said Jean-Michel Bourlès in a press release.