Terrible calendar than that of more or less serious accidents recorded since the opening of the A31… in 1966. On the highway of all dangers, not a day goes by without an accident. With its sad cohort of dead and wounded, the damage is immeasurable. Pile-ups, God knows if there were any. But, hoping that this never happens again, that of March 10, 1998 remains etched in our memories.
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7:13 a.m. that morning. Like every day at this hour, the traffic is intense. The thick fog begins to part. Between shreds of mist, users hiccup their speed. Still too fast though. Brake on. Everything changes. A thick layer of frost has transformed the bitumen into a skating rink. At Richemont, a first car gets in the way, another hits it… The rest sends shivers down my spine. In this chain reaction, coming from the Orne valley, the emergency services counted 90 vehicles embedded in each other. Stacked on top of each other. Human toll of this sheet metal hell: 53 injured, eight seriously. A 71-year-old woman died of her injuries two days later.
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On board 45 vehicles, including 21 ambulances, 130 firefighters, including 17 doctors, are dispatched to the scene. Forty-five gendarmes, 37 CRS, 26 DDE personnel and several teams of municipal police will join hands to prevent access to the A31 cut in both directions. All the convenience stores in the sector between Metz and Thionville are called to the rescue to clear the carcasses. A reception unit is set up at the Hagondange rescue center to take care of the shipwrecked. At the prefecture, a crisis unit is activated. The mass influx plan for victims is launched in the hospitals of Metz and Thionville. At the same time, a psychiatric emergency cell opened at the Bon-Secours hospital in Metz. It was twenty-four years ago. At that time, already, some demanded the doubling of the A31…
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