To what extent, on Thursday October 5, was the car carrying Pierre Hurmic, the mayor of Bordeaux, involved in an accident with a scooter which allegedly injured a 22-year-old student? The subject occupies a good part of the conversations of Bordeaux residents this Thursday, after an article from South West.
According to the victim’s words, reported by the regional daily, the driver apologized after the accident, before saying that he had to leave to join the procession of the Minister of Culture, visiting Bordeaux. She explains that she was somewhat discouraged from filing a complaint by those she spoke to. This Thursday at the beginning of the afternoon, the city would like to clarify things through a press release.
Two different versions of the accident
The town hall confirms part of the story based on the words of the driver: there was indeed a “crash” around 3 p.m., on the Verdun course “between an electric scooter driver and a city vehicle of Bordeaux driven by a City driver and carrying two passengers including the mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic. But according to the driver’s explanations to his superiors and his insurance, it was the scooter which “impacted the left front fender of the car, causing the driver to emergency brake.” The light had just turned green, in front of 36 cours de Verdun at the intersection of cours de Gourgue. The young woman says that it was the sedan that hit her, if we are to believe South West.
The testimonies agree on one point; the driver rolled down his window to speak to the driver of the scooter “who had not fallen,” the press release specifies. After inquiring about his condition, the driver, again according to the town hall, “offered to park a little further away, outside the intersection, to protect himself from traffic and draw up an amicable report “. She would have refused and would have walked away on a scooter. In the columns of the regional daily, the victim says that the driver was in a hurry and told him that he had to leave. We are told in the press release that “until the collision and the sudden stopping of the vehicle, the mayor of Bordeaux was busy reading working documents. »
No complaint filed at this stage
The day after the events, Friday October 6, the city driver was contacted by the police station who provided him with the contact details and identity of the driver of the scooter who had just left a handrail. The driver contacted the student “to invite her to come and draw up the amicable report which she had declined the day before”, assures the city, but she was not available and then no longer responded to his calls. For her part, the young woman confides to South West that the driver offered him “an arrangement” and worried “that things would go further”.
“The mayor of Bordeaux would like to express all his empathy and availability and regrets that an exchange could not take place on site immediately,” adds the press release. The city of Bordeaux would like to remind you that the driver of the electric scooter can and must feel completely free in all her actions and procedures to assert her rights. ” According to South West, the young woman suffers from a sprained neck, even though she did not fall, she specifies that the shock caused her to suffer “whiplash”. She was given ten days of ITT.
The Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office, contacted by 20 minutes, has not yet received a complaint. The person actually filed a handrail this weekend and then was contacted by the police station to come back to be heard but they refused to go any further at this stage.