A car and a minibus will collide in this tunnel between Gard and Aveyron

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Users of the RD999 will have to avoid the area on Wednesday October 2, 2024. The Alzon tunnelsbetween Gard et Aveyronsera farm all morning. Because of an accident.

And civil security exercise must in fact be organized between 9 and 12 a.m., in this tunnel.

Several injured

“Under the direction of Anne Levasseur, sub-prefect of the Vigan district, this exercise
will simulate a traffic accident in the tunnel between a light vehicle and a minibus
leading to several injuries,” specifies the Gard prefecture.

Many services will participate: firefighters, gendarmes, Samu, departmental councils and prefectures of the two departments concerned. But also, of course, the town hall of Alzon, as well as the Red Cross of Gard.

Between two departments

With three objectives:

• Check the proper functioning of the alert means, deadlines transmission of the alert and intervention of the emergency services and the gendarmerie.
• Test the operation of the telephone and radio communications emergency services.
• Train the emergency services and security forces of Gard and Aveyron to work together and thus promote interdepartmental coordination of all the actors.

Heavy goods vehicles are naturally invited to avoid the area and adapt their route accordingly.
consequence. For light vehicles, a detour will be put in place via the RD158 C.

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