Orange snow and ice alert: “Roads transformed into ice rinks”, a 20-year-old boy died in a pileup on the highway

Orange snow-ice warningit's over. This Saturday, Météo France placed 30 departments in the northern half of France on orange snow-ice alert. On the program, snowfall in the plains but also a phenomenon of freezing rain. It was without counting on a redoux which ended the alert earlier than expected this Sunday, when temperatures will exceed 10 degrees between Paris and Strasbourg in the morning.

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Pileup

Nevertheless, the results of the phenomenon are quite serious. Numerous accidents have been observed on different roads:A38 motorway in the region of Dijon was completely paralyzed for several hours and a pileup occurred on theA6 in the Paris-Lyon direction.

According to information from BFM TV, 3 vehicles were involved, the 20-year-old driver of one of them died.

Many vehicles were also involved in accidents on the secondary network of Île-de-France while the roads of Alsace were whitened by snow. “were transformed into ice rinks”according to our colleagues. Which is no longer the case this Sunday morning.