Star comedian, actor and director, Pierre Palmade, 54, “was admitted in serious condition to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital. He was placed in intensive care. His days are no longer in danger this morning “, according to a press release from the family to AFP.
Nothing had been communicated Saturday at midday on the state of health of three other victims, the occupants of the car struck in the opposite direction. They are residents of Seine-et-Marne: the driver in his forties, his six-year-old son and his thirty-something and pregnant sister-in-law, according to a source close to the investigation.
The relatives of Pierre Palmade “are thinking of the people affected during this accident and are waiting for reassuring news”, according to the family.
Two passengers flee
According to the first elements of the investigation, the vehicle that the comedian was driving “made a sharp swerve which brought him to the opposite roadway with an almost frontal impact” with a car arriving in the opposite direction.
According to a police source at AFP, witnesses reported that two passengers in Pierre Palmade’s car fled after the collision. They would be “twenty years old”.
Friday evening, the pregnant woman and the driver, like Pierre Palmade, were transported by helicopter to the hospital. Their vital prognosis, and that of the six-year-old child who was evacuated by road, were engaged in the evening.
An 80-year-old man was slightly injured. He was in a third vehicle, which rammed the family car from behind.
“We hope to hear from people quickly, hoping that they will get out of it without too serious consequences”, according to a source close to the investigation.
Expected toxicological analyzes
The results of the toxicological analyzes will be known at the end of the day, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Melun prosecutor’s office, contacted by AFP on Friday, reported “a main accident with the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade and the vehicle arriving in front”, and a second collision with “a third vehicle (which) arrives and hits the family vehicle from behind”.
An investigation was opened for “involuntary injuries by driver resulting in incapacity for work for more than three months”.
The facts took place on the D372, in the south of the department of Seine-et-Marne, between Villiers-en-Bière and Perthes. The Seine-et-Marne prefecture told AFP of a collision with “strong kinetics”.
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