The days of comedian Pierre Palmade are not “more in danger”his family told AFP this Saturday, February 11 the day after the serious accident in which his car was “made a strong swerve” until hitting in a “almost frontal impact” another vehicle, according to a police source.
“Pierre Palmade 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 statement from the family. Three other people, the occupants of the car hit in the opposite direction, were also seriously injured in the accident. Relatives of Pierre Palmade “think of the people affected during this accident and await reassuring news”according to the same source.
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. “Hospitalized, the woman lost the child she was carrying today”said the public prosecutor of Melun Jean-Michel Bourles, in a press release this Saturday.
“An almost frontal shock”
According to the first elements of the investigation, the vehicle that the comedian was driving “made a sharp swerve which brought him onto the opposite roadway with an almost frontal impact” with an oncoming car, seriously injuring three people who were there, said a police source.
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 also in the second vehicle and 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.
An investigation opened for “unintentional injuries”
The Melun prosecutor’s office, contacted by AFP on Friday, had 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 will hit the family vehicle from behind”.
An investigation has been opened for “unintentional injuries by driver resulting in incapacity for work exceeding three months”.
Two men were seen by witnesses fleeing from Pierre Palmade’s car after the accident. They would be one year old. “twenties”according to the first elements of the police investigation. “Investigations are also underway to confirm the presence of passengers in Pierre Palmade’s vehicle, who would have left the scene after the accident”said Jean-Michel Bourles.
