On the morning of November 7, a vehicle from a DIR team, in the middle of an intervention on the A21, was struck by a heavy goods vehicle. This is the 5th accident involving a DIR Nord vehicle since September.
On the morning of Thursday, November 7, DIR teams were victims of a new incident. Agents from the Valenciennes center were intervening in the context of demarking on the A21 following a traffic shift in the town of Pecquencourt.
Stopped on the hard shoulder, their van was hit by the rear view mirror of a heavy goods vehicle at the rear door. 3 officers were on scene and fortunately were not injured. Psychological support was offered to them.
In a press release, the North DIR deplored and condemned “irresponsible behavior of certain users endangering road officials”. Behavior also denounced by the mayor of Pecquencourt on social networks.
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