Two people died and 20 were slightly injured in the North, and three others injured in Pas-de-Calais during the snowy episode which has hit the department since Wednesday, the prefectures said on Thursday.
A person who “fell on the public highway” and “hit his head violently” died despite first aid and the intervention of the SMUR, indicated the Northern prefecture.
Another, of no fixed address, “was found dead in the early morning” in Valenciennes according to the same source.
In Pas-de-Calais, an accident left three people injured during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Marck, near Calais, where a car fell into the ditch, according to the department prefecture and the firefighters. Their vital prognosis is not in jeopardy, said the prefecture.
“A few other minor material accidents also took place, mainly on the secondary network,” added the Pas-de-Calais prefecture in a press release.
In the Nord and Pas-de-Calais, on orange alert for snow and ice since Wednesday afternoon and until Thursday noon, the movement of heavy goods vehicles is prohibited “on the entire secondary road network” until midday. School transport and intercity bus transport lines are suspended for the day.
These two departments as well as the Somme return to orange snow-ice vigilance from 10:00 p.m. Thursday and until 10:00 a.m. Friday, due to a “marked refreeze” expected with the arrival of cold weather, Météo-France indicated in its last bulletin.
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