In the middle of the day and in the middle of Paris, an impressive accident took place: a bus crashed into the window of a store on rue Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of the capital. The crash did, according to The Parisian, seven injured, two seriously. In view of the circumstances, the entire neighborhood was cordoned off by the police and firefighters. The exact cause remains to be determined but the daily suggests that the brakes of the bus would have dropped.
At 12:30 p.m. on July 12, 2022, a bus drove into the window of the Happy Trend store, which sells women’s clothing and accessories at 270 rue Vaugirard in Paris. The vehicle was embedded among the clothes, the models, also affecting customers. The bus driver was hospitalized in Cochin in the 14th district. Alcohol and toxicology analyzes are in progress. The neighborhood had to be blocked for four hours.
“The bus arrived from the rue d’Alleray“, details Jean-Yves Pinet, deputy mayor of the 15th, in charge of roads and road safety, who went there, indicates the daily.The bus reportedly had a brake fault. It is fully embedded in the window.“Seven injuries, including two seriously – the bus driver and a delivery man who was in the store – are to be deplored. The delivery man is being treated at the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital and the lives of the two seriously injured are not in danger. .
With such an accident, we imagine that the cost of repairs will be high, in addition to the exceptional closure during the work. What worry the owner of the store who can however be relieved that there were no more serious injuries. Four fire stations were mobilized and a tow truck came”extricate the store bus“.”The bus is completely dented, good for scrap“, told the Parisian a policeman. The presence of firefighters ensured that the electric motor and its batteries did not catch fire.
The machine is therefore in question after this accident. This is an electric bus put into service in 2013 and which underwent a technical inspection last February. Philippe Goujon, the mayor (LR) of the 15th clarified that the other bus of the same model “has been put on hold“. It was part of the Traverse electric fleet, small models with a capacity of 22 places. An investigation was entrusted to the judicial accident processing service (STJA) of the Paris police headquarters. According to BFMTV, “several options are on the table to explain the reasons for this serious traffic accident. Malfunction of the braking system, problem of maneuvering due to a cycle path, human error or health problem are some of the avenues studied by investigators“.