It was chaos this Wednesday morning on the roads of the Grand-Est. Traffic was difficult this Wednesday on its roads, placed on yellow snow ice alert, after the fall of freezing rain at dawn. Consequences: Numerous accidents, including one fatality in Alsace.
The firefighters of Bas-Rhin did not in fact suffer and intervened in 24 traffic accidents which therefore left one dead and 18 injured, including one serious just between 6 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., according to a press release received in the day.
The deceased is a motorist after a fatal collision with a tractor on departmental road 207, in the town of Bischoffsheim. A little further north on the A352 motorway, in Molsheim, an accident involving several vehicles left five injured in relative emergency, while a collision between two cars in Lupstein left one injured in absolute emergency, according to the press release.
Calls for caution
Traffic remained completely blocked for several hours in the direction of Strasbourg Colmar on the A35 motorway, noted an AFP team, which saw numerous emergency vehicles pass. Numerous accidents have also been reported in Lorraine despite several calls for caution, to motorists and pedestrians, alerted by the national police of Meurthe-et-Moselle on the X network.
-In Moselle, following an accident, a semi-trailer remained blocked on the A4 motorway in the direction Strasbourg Paris to Hombourg-le-Haut, generating 4 kilometers of traffic jams, indicated the prefect Laurent Touvet on the networks social. “The left lanes in both directions will be neutralized all day for crash barrier repairs,” he warned.
“The icy episode is tending to fade, however the firefighters are still heavily in demand,” write the firefighters of Meurthe-et-Moselle on X, calling on residents to limit their movements, “including on foot, and thus avoid the mobilization of relief. “The warm spell will be gradual. Icy areas may persist on the road and sidewalks,” they warn.