A terrible accident occurred in the 19th arrondissement. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, around 3:30 a.m., a pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle, according to a information from BFMTV confirmed to Le Parisien by a police source. A few minutes earlier, the motorist had refused to stop at a police checkpoint.
The events took place in the middle of the night. At precisely 3:29 a.m., a police crew from the Pantin police station asked a motorist to stop his vehicle, a BMW series 1, while he was driving along avenue Edouard-Vaillant in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) between the Quatre-Chemins district and the city center of Pantin. But the latter refuses to submit to the police. A chase then begins through the streets of the capital. “The individual successively took many 19th century arteries,” a police source tells us.
The car found
After several minutes, the driver managed to outrun the police forces at the Porte de la Villette tunnel. A few moments later, at 3:35 a.m. according to our information, the officers learned that the driver had just hit a pedestrian, a 30-year-old man according to our colleagues at BFMTV, on Boulevard Macdonald (XIXth). The impact was so violent that the victim was thrown several meters from the road.
“Despite the rapid intervention of emergency services, the victim was declared dead,” the police source confirms. As for the fleeing motorist’s car, it was first found in another street in the borough. The driver was finally arrested this Sunday afternoon.