Following a accident grave de circulation occurred yesterday evening on the A6b motorway in the Val-de-Marneinvolving a busfour cars and a two-wheeler, five people found themselves in absolute emergency. The Department was then placed on orange alert due to the storm Caetano.
Arrived on the scene around 11:30 p.m. in the commune of Chevilly-Larueemergency services found one of the victims “incarcerated” in his car, a police source told AFP. According to the latter, the accident was “directly linked to degraded weather conditions following the passage of the storm Caetano“.
The circumstances of the accident are still unknown.
According to the firefighters and the Val-de-Marne prefecture, contacted by AFP, 31 people were also more lightly injured or were treated in relative emergency. “Unless I'm mistaken, there are no major casualties, no deaths in this accident.“, declared the Minister of Transport, François Durovray on BFMTV this morning, specifying that “THE exact circumstances“ are still unknown.
If the snow has stopped falling over most of Île-de-France, Météo-France still places 31 departments in orange warning for snow, ice and windthis Friday, compared to around fifty yesterday.
