“My kid, he could have died! I don’t understand”. This father remains very shocked, a little more than a week after the accident suffered by his son on Monday April 11 at the exit of the Labitrie college in Tournefeuille. “They called me at work, I came running, he says. He had just been hit on the pedestrian crossing between the college and the bus stop”.
It is 12:30 p.m. and a motorist could not avoid the 13-year-old teenager. “The fire brigade and the police came. He suffered from head trauma and bruises. He was x-rayed on his back and spine in the emergency room. He spent two nights in the hospital to ensure that ‘he had no blood in his brain’.
The college student, who remembers nothing, is prescribed three days of total interruption of work by the medical examiner. “He had a narrow escape, observes his father who is not angry. It is scandalous not to respect a pedestrian crossing, especially since the driver, a member of the national education system, should set an example”.
He intends to write to the town hall of Tournefeuille. “Even if the zone is limited to 30km / h, it is absolutely necessary to put speed bumps so that there is no other accident”. On January 12 in Toulouse, in the Pradettes district, Clémentine, 17, was also hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing. She was out of high school. She is still in a coma in a worrying state.