21 firefighters intervened this Wednesday midday on the A8 motorway, at the Saint-Isidore tollbooth in Nice.
According to initial information, a heavy goods vehicle was damaged at the barrier where it was embedded in another truck.
The driver is imprisoned in the heavy goods vehicle. Seven machines are mobilized to help him.
The driver, a 43-year-old man, was transported unmedically to the Pasteur 2 hospital center.
The departmental road safety squadron of the gendarmerie is on the scene.
A “crazy” truck in 2015
On October 29, 2015, a “crazy” truck, without brakes, registered in Romania, pulverized the Saint-Isidore tollbooth.
A large descent, located in the Italy-France direction, just before the barrier, is the cause of a number of accidents.
The results that year: one motorcyclist killed and eight injured. Four years later, in 2019, justice recognized the responsibility of the Romanian driver, found guilty of manslaughter.
He was given a one-year suspended prison sentence and his driving license suspended for six months.
The transporter was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, twelve of which were suspended.
