Pierre Palmade: cocaine, lost baby… What we know about his accident

Involved in a serious car accident, Pierre Palmade would have hit another vehicle head-on. Hospitalized, he would have tested positive for cocaine and substitution drugs. A pregnant woman lost her baby as a result of the collision.

[Mis à jour le 12 février 2023 à 10h51] After the serious car accident of Pierre Palmade, which occurred on Friday February 10, the circumstances of the tragedy are becoming clearer. According to several media, including Le Parisien and BFM TV, the 54-year-old actor, still hospitalized on Sunday February 12, would have tested positive for cocaine and substitution drugs. The cocaine intake would have been recent compared to the time of the accident. According to The ParisianPierre Palmade was driving a Peugeot 3008 which swerved into the left lane to hit a Renault Megane almost head-on on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, Friday evening February 10.

The passengers in the second car, a man, a 6-year-old child and a pregnant woman, were all seriously injured in the accident. Saturday, February 11, the public prosecutor, Jean-Michel Bourlès, indicated that the woman had lost the child she was carrying following the accident. A third car, a Renault Twingo, was involved in the accident. She came to fit into the Mégane, with less gravity for its 80-year-old driver. An investigation for homicide and involuntary injuries was opened by the prosecution.

Saturday, February 11, the family of Pierre Palmade has confirmed that the vital prognosis of the comedian was no longer engaged. The actor “has been placed in intensive care. His days are no longer in danger this morning”, wrote his relatives in a press release, taken up by BFM-TV Saturday morning.

After the accident, Pierre Palmade had to be extricated from his vehicle and rushed to the nearest hospital center, the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital, in Val-de-Marne. The vital prognosis of the 54-year-old comedian was then engaged, reported The Parisian during the evening, confirming in passing the information of the Sunday newspaper that Pierre Palmade was in a state of absolute emergency.

A video of the three cars involved in the accident was revealed on social networks by a journalist. 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, a Peugeot 3008, allegedly hit a second vehicle, a Renault Mégane, in which was a pregnant woman, her brother and her six-year-old child. A third car, a Twingo 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 car, at the wheel of which Pierre Palmade was, would have deported on the side lane, where the vehicle 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. These two men, who would be in their twenties, could be prosecuted for failure to assist a person in danger.

According The Parisian, Pierre Palmade had a valid driver’s license. According to the first elements of the investigation, revealed by The Parisian, Pierre Palmade would have lost control of his vehicle on a straight line. He tested positive for cocaine and substitution drugs. The alcohol test was negative.

The investigation opened for unintentional injuries was reclassified this Saturday as “homicide and unintentional injuries by driver resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months”.

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.

This Saturday, the public prosecutor, Jean-Michel Bourles indicated that the victim lost the child she was carrying. The fourth and last serious victim would be the brother of the pregnant woman, a passenger in the Mégane. The 80-year-old man who was in the third car was said to 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 Parisianwho had visited the artist in his home.

Pierre Palmade’s house is located in an area 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.