Pierre Palmade: reassuring news, a video of his damaged car revealed

Comedian Pierre Palmade was involved in a serious car accident on Friday February 10. The 54-year-old artist, whose vital prognosis is no longer engaged on Saturday February 11, would have struck another vehicle head-on.

[Mis à jour le 11 février 2023 à 11h48] Pierre Palmade was involved in a serious car accident on Friday February 10 and was transferred to Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Val-de-Marne. The vital prognosis of the artist is no longer engaged, Saturday February 11, according to information from the Parisian. A pregnant woman, her brother and her six-year-old child are also in serious condition after the accident. Pierre Palmade’s car reportedly collided head-on with that of a family on Friday February 10 around 6:45 p.m. The particularly violent accident took place on the departmental road near Dammarie-les-Lys and involved three vehicles. The balance sheet, Saturday, February 11, is five injured in total, including three serious.

Saturday February 11, the family of Pierre Palmade confirmed that his vital prognosis was no longer engaged. “He has been placed in intensive care. His life is no longer in danger this morning,” his family wrote in a statement, taken up by BFM-TV. An investigation was opened for “involuntary injuries by driver resulting in incapacity for work for more than three months”. She was entrusted to the Melun Val-de-Seine police station.

A video of the three cars involved in the accident has been released. We see the carcasses of the vehicles, from which the victims had to be extricated. The RD372 had to be temporarily closed. About twenty firefighters had to intervene on the spot. At their side, three medical teams from Samu also had to move in order to extricate the victims stuck in two of the vehicles.

It was around 6:45 p.m. on Friday February 10 when the accident that involved Pierre Palmade took place on departmental road 372, which connects Dammarie-les-Lys to Villiers-en-Bière, in Seine-et-Marne. According to information from Parisian, Pierre Palmade’s car would have hit a second vehicle head-on in which was a pregnant woman, her brother and her six-year-old child. A collision with “strong kinetics”, according to the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne. A third car driven by an 80-year-old man then appeared and hit one of the two vehicles already in the accident.

According to witnesses cited by The Parisian, the Peugeot, at the wheel of which Pierre Palmade was, would have deported on the side lane, where the car driven by the pregnant woman was arriving in the opposite direction. Witnesses claim to have seen two people get out of the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade and flee after the collision.

Pierre Palmade is not the only victim of this tragic accident. The prefecture of Seine-et-Marne reported on Friday evening a report of “five injured including four serious”. A pregnant woman and her six-year-old child, who were in the second vehicle involved, were also seriously injured. The fourth and last serious victim would be the brother of the pregnant woman.

According to the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne, of which franceinfo echoes, two of the three vehicles were hit “very seriously”. The prefecture reports a balance sheet of “five injured including four serious”. According to franceinfo, an 80-year-old man occupied the third car. He would be slightly injured.

The RD372, where Pierre Palmade’s accident occurred, leads to the town of Cély-en-Bière, where the comedian lives. A house bought shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic, located not far from the Fontainebleau forest, explained in 2020 The Parisian, who had visited the artist in his home. Pierre Palmade’s house is in a corner that the comedian had already known twenty years earlier, when Muriel Robin had invested in the area and had “asked him to be his neighbor”.

Pierre Palmade, the accomplice of Muriel Robin and Michèle Laroque

Born on March 23, 1968 in Bordeaux, Pierre Palmade made a name for himself in the 80s with one-man shows such as “My mother really likes what I do”, “Do we know each other?”, “Passez me see on occasion”, but also shows put on with his accomplices Muriel Robin and Michèle Laroque: “They love each other” in 1996, and “They are loved”, in 2001. Shows nominated several times at the Molières and the Victoires de la Musique.

Father of a whole generation of comedians, Pierre Palmade is above all a figure of the one-man-show and private theatre. He’s a familiar face on TV and has starred in a dozen films.