This Wednesday, January 15, a collision between a tractor and a car left one person dead, the driver of the private vehicle, on departmental 207 near the town of Bischoffsheim (Grand Est). In Aisne (Hauts-de-France), two people also died in accidents due to ice.
In total, Bas-Rhin firefighters counted 24 traffic accidents between 6 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., according to a press release received in the middle of the day, which reported one death and 18 injuries, including one serious.
On the A352 motorway in Molsheim, an accident involving several vehicles left five people injured in relative emergency, while a collision between two cars in Lupstein left one person injured in absolute emergency, according to the press release.
Traffic remained completely blocked for several hours in the Strasbourg-Colmar direction on the A35 motorway, noted an AFP team, which saw numerous emergency vehicles pass.
A semi-trailer stuck on the motorway in Moselle
Numerous accidents have also been reported in Lorraine as well as in Moselle where, following an accident, a semi-trailer is blocked on the A4 motorway in the direction Strasbourg-Paris in Hombourg-le-Haut, generating 4 kilometers of traffic jams, indicated prefect Laurent Touvet.
“The icy episode is tending to fade, however the firefighters are still in heavy demand,” wrote the firefighters of Meurthe-et-Moselle on X, calling on residents to limit their movements, “including on foot, and avoid thus the mobilization of relief. The warm spell will be gradual. Icy areas may persist on roads and sidewalks. “,
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