Pretty wild end to police chase in Paris

[Pdf27]

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Crashed cars were heading north up a long straight road which goes right past the front of Gare Montparnasse (just visible at the bottom of the page). There's a sharp kink right just before they turn around the 120° right-hand corner - the car they were chasing hit some ironwork there, and would have been invisible until ~20m or so before impact. If they went around the corner at much more than a crawl, there isn't much they could have done to avoid a crash.

[Pdf27]

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[Craiglxviii]

Technically it's the Place Charles de Gaulle. Also known as Etoiles due to the star in the road surface.

Never driven there but I've seen it plenty of times. The latest wheeze appears to be installing a new set of bollards to greatly narrow the junctions number of lanes. Quite the difference on Streetview.

I had to go around it a few years ago, wife & children and fully loaded car- I was on the way to the Embassy to collect an emergency passport as mine had been stolen.

Suffice it to say, one approaches it as per an ordinary large traffic island. Only… traffic entering has priority over traffic going around. The traffic going around knows this and so is determined not to let any gap develop in front so traffic can enter. It is… unpleasant.

In the end I had to tell Mrs LXVIII to close her eyes NOW and floored it into the tiniest of tiny gaps, to get over onto the Champs-Elysees.