Weather France ended, Sunday January 5 at 6 a.m., the orange snow-ice vigilance for the whole country in its new bulletin, after the end of the freezing rains in the northeast, who left one dead on a highway in Burgundy.
A 20-year-old young man died on Saturday on the A6 in an accident probably due to the disturbance which crossed the north and east of France during this last weekend of the Christmas holidays, which had resulted in the placement of around thirty departments on orange snow-ice vigilance.
The freezing rains, which led to the cutting of several highways in Burgundy on Saturday evening, appear to be at the origin of a pile-up of three vehicles on the A6in the Paris-Lyon direction, near Mercueil (Côte d'Or).
Four injured, including a six-year-old child
The driver of one of the vehicles, a 20-year-old young man diedwhile four other people were slightly injured, including a six-year-old childindicated the firefighters.
On Sunday, meteorologists ended the vigilance by explaining that“a disturbance associated with a mass of mild air” was “sweeping the whole countryin a southwest/northeast direction. This mild air puts an end to the snow and freezing rain that required monitoring.”
Météo France had planned snowfall “usually quite brief”but which can be more persistent in the border departments of the Grand-Est, which can give “up to five centimeters to the ground.
