A young woman in a coma, was taken Monday to the hospital in by motorized police escort after a falling billboard Avenue of the Grand Army, at Porte Maillot in the XVI th arrondissement of Paris.
His companion, gravely injured, including suffering a fractured femur.
The accident occurred shortly before 15 hours. A large billboard that hung on hoarding flew. He came crashing to a young couple from pedestrians.
The young woman aged 24, transported to the Georges-Pompidou Hospital would be between life and death. The man, aged 27 years, who suffers from a fractured femur was taken to hospital Pitie Salpetriere.
VIDEO. winds: two seriously injured in Paris after the fall of a billboard
According to firefighters, the billboard was fixed on fences work and came off with the wind. According to a police source, the panel was sealed in concrete and was next to a construction site.
“An investigation has been initiated in order to identify precisely the causes of this tragedy, said the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo . Pending the results, I asked companies that operate billboards on the highway today check their facilities to ensure they meet the standards and are therefore capacity to withstand the weather, “she explains.
Jean-François Curtil, company president Outfront Media France who owns the display furniture in question, said he had immediately dispatched a team of experts on site. “Technical teams were missioned on other similar devices to ensure that they have not been weakened by these violent storms,” he wrote in a statement.
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