Nightmarish evening in Besançon this Sunday, July 10, 2022. Around 10 p.m., a speeding motorist hit a 4-year-old child, reports The Republican East. The facts occurred in the rue de Trey and in front of witnesses. The latter, disconcerted by the accident, also faced the shocking reaction of the driver.
A driver in his forties driving towards the center of the city of Besançon hit a 4-year-old child who was crossing the road. He was then thrown onto the road. The man behind the wheel stopped his car and took the child in his arms to hand him to a passerby. Another motorist, present at the scene, remained dumbfounded, until the person who picked up the young victim in his arms asked him to take him to the hospital as soon as possible.
Supported by the firefighters and the medical team of the SMUR, the boy who was transferred to the CHU of Besançon is in a worrying state. According to France 3 Bourgogne-France-Comté, which quotes the police, the child was placed in an artificial coma because “he presented on his arrival lung lesions with bleeding in the left lung“His vital prognosis, however, was no longer engaged.
The person responsible for the drama called his children back who were playing in the nearby public garden and then fled. Another person present at the scene reports The Republican East : “He didn’t care about the kid. He had only one thing in mind to save himself.“The investigations are continuing, the man will be known to the neighborhood where he regularly frequents the park on rue de Trey. Another notable fact that France 3 highlights, a 15-year-old girl, a member of the victim’s family, was evacuated to the hospital, traumatized by the violence of the accident.
According to information from France 3 with the police, the 57-year-old presumed culprit then spontaneously went to the police station accompanied by his daughter: “He clarified that the child had come out of nowhere and that he had not seen him arrive on the road. The individual was taken into custody. He breathed at 0.0 mg/L exhaled breath and the multi-drug saliva screen was negative.“