A 68-year-old cyclist died Tuesday after being mowed down on the departmental 83, near Thieux (Seine-et-Marne).
The sixty-year-old was hit by a truck around 9:20 p.m., on this unlit road at night, reports
Le Parisien
.
According to the first elements of the investigation carried out by the police of Chelles-Villeparisis, the driver of the truck would not have seen the man on the bicycle, who was not wearing either a fluorescent chasuble or a lighting device on his bicycle.
The driver very shocked
The driver of the truck stopped, believing he had hit an obstacle, and noticed that he had run over the cyclist.
The man, extremely shocked, was taken into custody.
On September 2, another accident involving a cyclist took place in Seine-et-Marne.
A 12-year-old child was hit by a speeding car in the town of Poigny in the early evening.
Transported to the Necker hospital in Paris in a state of absolute emergency, the teenager's life would no longer be in danger.
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