The accident took place this Saturday morning before dawn on the Roberval viaduct between Compiègne and Senlis. A leak from a fuel tank is believed to be the cause of the fire, which caused no injuries.
An accident occurred Saturday morning on the A1 motorway in the Oise department in the Lille-Paris direction. A broken down car, which was parked on the emergency lane near the Roberval viaduct between Compiègne and Sens, was hit by a heavy goods vehicle shortly after 6 a.m. Fortunately, the driver of the car had gotten out of his vehicle and was at a call point to report his breakdown when the accident occurred.
The collision was so severe that the semi-trailer overturned on its side before being devoured by flames, possibly as a result of an oil leak. According to the departmental road safety squadron cited by our colleagues from Parisianthis leak would come from the gas tank of the heavy goods vehicle and would not be linked to what it was transporting.
The driver of the truck, for his part, managed to escape from his cabin before the truck caught fire. The gendarmerie clarified that he was quickly taken to hospital and that the tests carried out revealed nothing. “He is more shocked than hurt”specifies the police cited by the Parisian.
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On site, traffic was prohibited from 6:25 a.m. Help arrived quickly as did the firefighters who were “over 50” pour “stop the fire” of the two vehicles, completely engulfed in flames upon their arrival. The highway did not reopen to traffic until 4 p.m. The accident caused a major traffic jam, up to 1.8 kilometers long, and traffic was diverted onto secondary roads.
