“We were called at 6:20 p.m. for a scooter accident hit by a private ambulance (…). When we arrived on the scene, the two people, who were riding the same scooter at the time of the accident, were in cardiac arrest,” said a department fire official.
Two minors, a boy and a girl riding a scooter in Lyon, died Monday evening after being hit by a private ambulance, the Rhône firefighters said. “We were called at 6:20 p.m. for a scooter accident hit by a private ambulance (…). When we arrived on the scene, the two people, who were riding the same scooter at the time of the accident, were in cardiac arrest,” a fire department official told AFP, confirming information from the regional daily. Progress.
Drivers in shock
“They died quickly,” said the officer, who said they were an underage boy and girl, but could not specify their ages. Progress advance for his part that they were respectively 17 and 15 years old, and that they were high school students.
The accident occurred at 5 Quai du Maréchal-Joffre in the second arrondissement of Lyon. The victims “were traveling on a bus lane and the ambulance that hit them was going to intervene,” he said. The driver of this one, as well as his colleague, were transported to the hospital Édouard Herriot “because they were in a state of shock”, concluded this same source.