They must not have believed their eyes. The gendarmes of Val-d’Oise revealed this Sunday, on their facebook page, having had to face an unprecedented situation this Thursday on the A15 motorway. “One morning, during a shift… What was the surprise of a patrol of our reservists when on the A15 motorway, they saw a driver determined to enter the fast lane… In a wheelchair rolling! “, write the soldiers in a light tone.
On the photo attached to the publication, we can indeed guess a warmly dressed man, seated in a wheelchair which seems electric, located on an acceleration lane leading to the A15 motorway, the main road axis of Val-d’ Oise, used daily by more than 190,000 vehicles.
” The reason ? Lost, he followed the GPS! “, continue the soldiers, we can see on the image that two vehicles quickly protected the man by encircling him. Before ending by reassuring their readers: “Quickly put in safety, and informed of the risks and the danger, it is taken care of by a crew of the National Police, territorially competent on this axis. All’s well That ends well ! “.
Wheelchairs assimilated to pedestrians in the Highway Code
The local news website, Actu, who contacted the National Police, affirms that the scene happened very close to the Cergy police station, near the 3 Fontaines shopping center. The military, more accustomed to communicating, to their 18,000 followers, their actions for good works, their training or, of course, their interventions, saw their message shared more than 100 times in a few hours, with more than 200 “j ‘like “.
A publication that has led to many incredulous reactions on social networks. Gaëtan took the opportunity to challenge the prefect of Val-d’Oise on the difficulties “to circulate in the 95 in a wheelchair without a personal vehicle”, when Anthony said he had already seen on this highway “electric scooters, bicycles and pedestrians… C It’s situations like this every day, ”he worries. “It has four wheels and an engine! “, quips Alexandra under the publication of the gendarmes.
A grotesque scene already observed in the Aude in 2015 in the south of Scotland in March 2017 with a 92-year-old man, where an 87-year-old German who had taken a motorway with his electric wheelchair to “go home” in 2015. As a reminder, according to the French Highway Code, “electric wheelchairs are assimilated to a pedestrian”.