Moroccan Pizza Delivery Driver Dies After Hit-and-Run in Brest, France

Witnesses to the accident said it was around 10:40 p.m. on Friday, February 26 when a Renault Laguna suddenly appeared at full speed and crossed the intersection, hitting the pizza delivery man who was on his scooter. Dispatched to the scene, the emergency services took Salah Eddine to the hospital. "The motorist involved in the collision abandoned his vehicle and left on foot. He had a passenger," recounts a witness, who adds that the license plates of the car were illegible, reports le Télégramme.

He will turn himself in at the police station around 3 a.m. and confess to being the author of the accident. Five hours after the incident, his alcohol level does not exceed the authorized maximum. He was released after 24 hours in custody. The pizza delivery man was not so lucky. Placed in intensive care at the Cavale-Blanche hospital, he was declared brain dead. It was in the presence of his mother, who had expressly come from Morocco, that he was disconnected.

Pizza delivery men and those who knew the young man are in shock. Many speak of him as a hardworking and endearing young man. "I know him, I played soccer with him. Salah Eddine was kind and reserved," reacts an acquaintance, very moved. "He didn’t go out much, he was discreet and worked to finance his studies," specifies one of his colleagues. "In over 20 years of work, this is the first time I’ve experienced such a tragedy. It’s terrible. It’s my nightmare that has unfortunately come true," adds Ali Chbihi. The boss, who welcomed the victim’s mother on her arrival in Brest last Thursday, is organizing and taking charge of the repatriation of the young man to Morocco.

Accidents of this kind are frequent in downtown Brest since the explosion of two-wheeled delivery activity. "At least three serious accidents in less than fifteen days," deplored, on Tuesday, the divisional commissioner Michel Malléa at the police station of the City of Ponant.