One of the first firefighters to intervene after the Pierre Palmade accident recounts the discovery of the three vehicles involved in the accident which occurred on Friday evening in Seine-et-Marne.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a severe frontal impact.” At the microphone of TF1/LCI this Sunday, a firefighter intervened Friday evening during the road accident involving Pierre Palmade testifies to the unprecedented violence of the collision which left four seriously injured including a child and a pregnant woman who lost her baby.
This firefighter says he was the first to arrive at the scene of the accident – in Villiers-en-Bière in Seine-et-Marne – barely 15 minutes after the fact. When he and his team intervene, he says they discover “a lone man”, “stuck in his vehicle”.
Victims hit by the violence of the shock
“He looks at us, his eyes are empty,” testifies this firefighter. “He speaks to us: it is at this moment that he tells us that he is Pierre Palmade, he is completely haggard but remains conscious”.
The man specifies that during these first exchanges, the star comedian is “at no time unconscious”. According to him, Pierre Palmade tries to open the door but he cannot get out of the car. “So I have to wait for the extrication vehicle,” says the firefighter.
He also remembers taking care of the second vehicle, in which there was a pregnant woman complaining of a “very bad stomach ache” and a “very sleepy” six-year-old child, whom he had at that time. that time struggling to keep awake.
Two people wanted
The professional then describes a sinister scene, with “pieces (of vehicle) everywhere, two very very damaged cars strewn on the road”. It is according to him after that that the officers tell them that they are looking for an elderly person who was driving a vehicle and “who went home”, and two people who fled from the comedian’s vehicle.
According to him, a drone and then a helicopter from the gendarmerie were sent during the intervention in search of these individuals. The two men who got out of Pierre Palmade’s car were still wanted on Saturday.
An investigation has been opened for homicide and unintentional injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotics, the magistrate said in a press release. According to the first elements of the investigation, Pierre Palmade was driving under the influence of cocaine during the collision.
