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A truck crossed the central reservation for an unknown reason and hit an oncoming truck. A car then crashed into one of these trucks, killing two of its occupants.
Traffic interrupted for several hours
Traffic was interrupted for all vehicles heading towards Toulouse and Bayonne. Throughout the evening, the Vinci Autoroutes teams and their partners were mobilized to enable emergency services to intervene and evacuate the vehicles involved in this accident.
Traffic was able to resume this Thursday, at 4:40 a.m. on the right lane towards Bayonne, the left lane remaining closed to allow repair work on the central reservation.
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Single lane towards Toulouse
The vehicles detained before the accident were then able to get back on the road, thanks in particular to the opening of the central reservation allowing these vehicles to make a safe U-turn with the police.
The accident occurred Wednesday evening around 6:30 p.m. on a portion of the A64 in the Hautes-Pyrénées.
X/Highway A 64
-Recovery operations were able to begin to evacuate the vehicles involved in the accident. After unloading one of the trucks, specialized wreckers, accompanied by cranes, proceeded to lift it.
In the direction of Toulouse, after the gendarmerie findings, numerous cleaning operations were then necessary in order to be able to reopen this axis to traffic in complete safety. Traffic was able to resume shortly after 6 p.m. on one lane.
The two left lanes will remain closed
The left lanes of the A64, in both directions of traffic, will nevertheless remain closed to traffic in order to allow repair and restoration work on the central reservation and safety barriers.
They should remain so until the weekend, specifies Vinci Autoroutes, which recommends being well informed before any trip to this sector and calls on drivers to be extremely vigilant in this sector where the teams are always intervening.
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