After leaving the road on the RN165 this Wednesday morning around 4:30 am, a heavy truck carrying hundreds of turkeys overturned, and with it all its cargo, our colleagues from Ouest France noted.
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The truck, which was traveling in the direction of Nantes, would have left its lane at a chicane, near Malville (Loire-Atlantique).
The gendarmes of the motorized platoon (PMO) of Pontchâteau, as well as the motorized brigade (BMO) of Saint-Nazaire, went on site to secure the perimeter, specifies
Ouest France
.
A detour was also set up by the Interdepartmental Direction des Routes Ouest (DIRO) around 7:30 am.
If the heavy truck was indeed evacuated by a mechanic, a rendering company was expected to remove the dead animals from the roadway.
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