Sacred galley, for Aix motorists this Monday morning. Even hell, to join Marseille, or win Aix-en-Provence from the south of the Pays d’Aix. More than three quarters of an hour to come from Gardanne, and again, escaping from the highway completely congestioned at the miles to go through the Arc bridge and the southern districts.
In the city center, there too, traffic was complicated. Similarly on peripheral axes such as the Galician road or the avenue de l’Europe, completely saturated. It took more than half an hour to reach the hypercentre from the Auchan shopping center, when it takes ten maximum in normal times …
In question, the spectacular accident, which occurred in the night from Sunday to Monday, of a heavy goods vehicle. The latter left the A8 while driving in the Nice-Salon direction to flatten himself on the central media of the A51 below before igniting. The Dirmed teams intervened at the start of the morning to evacuate the truck and put the road in condition. On Monday, around noon, the devices were released the calcined structure of the truck.
Damage on the road and anxiety for bridges
But the damage on the road network was important. The road, very damaged, had to be the subject of emergency repairs and coating work has been carried out so that the vehicles can again drive on this portion of highway. The safety slides also had to be repaired, on the A8 as on the A51. And another point generated an concern in the early afternoon. With a central question: what impact could have the fire on the structure of the bridges near which the truck burned?
