A young man died on Saturday January 4 on the A6 in Burgundy, in an accident probably due to the disruption crossing the north and east of France during this last weekend of the Christmas holidays
Météo-France put an end to the Orange snow-ice alert for the entire country in its new bulletin on the morning of this Sunday, January 5, after the end of the freezing rains in the northeast which left one person dead on one highway in Burgundy.
A 26-year-old young man dies on the A6
A 20-year-old young man died on Saturday January 4 on the A6 in an accident probably due to the disturbance which crossed the north and east of France during this last weekend of the Christmas holidays, which had led to the placement around thirty departments on orange snow-ice alert.
The freezing rains which led to the closure of several motorways in Burgundy on Saturday evening appear to be the cause of a pile-up of three vehicles on the A6, in the Paris-Lyon direction, near Mercueil (Côte-d’ Gold).
The driver of one of the vehicles, a young man of 20, died, while four other people were slightly injured, including a six-year-old child, firefighters said.
Two seriously injured, around sixty victims
According to a report on Saturday January 4 at 9:30 p.m., sixteen road accidents were recorded in Côte d’Or, causing sixty victims including, in addition to the young man who died, two seriously injured.
This Sunday, January 5, meteorologists put an end to vigilance by explaining that “a disturbance associated with a mild air mass” was “sweeping the entire country, in a southwest/northwest direction.” This mild air puts an end to the snow and freezing rain that required monitoring.”
Météo-France had forecast snowfall “generally quite brief”, but which could be more persistent in the border departments of the Grand-Est, potentially dropping up to five centimeters on the ground.
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