Rens HulmanThe duo bike on which the two were traveling during the storm
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Omroep Gelderland
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 15:46
The province of Gelderland today removed eight trees along the cycle path next to the N791 near Wilp, the place where a woman died in an accident on Thursday afternoon during storm Pia.
Research shows that the trees have become unstable due to a combination of a swampy soil, high water and the storm, reports Omroep Gelderland. Because the trees are also on the edge of a ditch slope, they were cut down today.
On Thursday around 4:30 p.m., a 39-year-old employee of a healthcare institution was seriously injured when she rode along the cycle path with a client on a duo bicycle and was hit by a falling tree. The woman died yesterday from her injuries, the client escaped with minor injuries.
Also ash trees gone in Flevoland
The province of Flevoland is also removing a number of trees as a result of the storm. In this case it concerns several dozen ash trees along the Gooiseweg between Lelystad and Harderwijk. A truck driver had to make an emergency stop there on Thursday afternoon around 4:40 PM when a tree fell across the road. He managed to stop his truck just in time by swerving to the central reservation,
It was already known that the trees along the Gooiseweg were in poor condition. Many trees are suffering from ash branch mortality and would be gradually replaced in the near future. The province does not want to wait for that now. Due to the wet autumn, the soil condition has deteriorated and the roots have been (further) damaged, reports Broadcasting Flevoland. The province has now started cutting them down.
These are images from Thursday; Here you can also see how things went wrong on the Gooiseweg in Flevoland:
Blown over trucks and dike passages closed: storm Pia passes over the Netherlands
2023-12-23 14:46:18
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