Road traffic jostled in the Somme.
A pileup involving 10 vehicles left 24 injured on the A16 motorway near Bettencourt-Saint-Ouen early this Sunday morning, the Somme prefecture said.
The accident, which occurred around 6:15 a.m. in the Boulogne-Paris direction, involved nine light vehicles and a heavy goods vehicle, specifies the prefecture in a situation update.
“The current report shows 24 injured people treated by firefighters,” she adds.
Three people were in a state of absolute emergency and were airlifted, completes France Bleu Picardie.
The circumstances of the accident are not yet known.
The highway was cut this Sunday mid-morning, forcing vehicles to take a diversion set up by the departmental council.
The prefecture still advises against taking exit 22 at Abbeville in the direction of Boulogne - Paris and exit 20 Amiens north in the direction of Paris - Boulogne.
A phenomenon of freezing rain
The northern third of France was hit by heavy snowfall in the middle of the week, and temperatures remained negative in the days that followed.
“Meteo France reports a phenomenon of freezing rain which crossed the northwest and the north at the end of the night” from Saturday to this Sunday, indicates Bison futé.
A disruption which “could last until early afternoon”.
This phenomenon “is heading east, extending from the north of Allier and Cher to Champagne-Ardenne, Burgundy, Lorraine,” adds Bison futé.
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The icy patches are the cause of a road accident which took place this Sunday morning, shortly after 6 a.m., on the A13 motorway in the provincial - Paris direction.
A 60-year-old woman died in an accident on the highway, shortly after Mantes-la-Jolie.
Four other people, aged between 30 and 56, were transported with minor injuries to the nearest hospitals.