This Saturday evening, 22 departments are on orange alert.
A 20-year-old young man died on Saturday on the A6 in Burgundy, in an accident probably due to the disturbance which crossed the north and east of France during this last weekend of the Christmas holidays, leading to the placement around twenty departments on orange snow-ice alert. Heavy freezing rain, which led to the closure of several motorways in Burgundy on Saturday evening, appears to be the cause of a pileup of three vehicles on the A6, in the Paris-Lyon direction, near Mercueil ( Gold Coast).
The driver of one of the vehicles, a 20-year-old young man, died, while four other people were slightly injured, including a 6-year-old child, firefighters said. According to a report at 9:30 p.m., while the freezing rains were about to end according to the weather services, sixteen road accidents were recorded in Côte d’Or, causing sixty victims including, in addition to the deceased young man, two injured serious.
Throughout the country, and according to a new weather forecast broadcast at 10 p.m., 22 departments were still placed on orange alert until midnight. Only 14 will remain from this time until 6:00 a.m. Sunday, according to Météo France. Yvelines, Essonne, Paris and the inner suburbs have thus come out of orange vigilance.
“A disturbance associated with a mild air mass is sweeping the entire country, in a southwest/northeast direction, during the night from Saturday to Sunday. This disturbance will encounter a mass of cold air in the north of the country, causing snowfall and especially freezing rain for a few hours, until the mild air takes over for good.specifies the agency.
Fourteen departments will be on orange alert until Sunday 6:00 a.m.: Aisne, Ardennes, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Somme, Vosges and Territory of Belfort.
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