And serious traffic accident involving a heavy goods vehicle transporting hazardous materials and a car occurred this Wednesday, May 18, 2022, causing the closure in both directions of l’autoroute A7 at the level of the commune of Chasse-sur-Rhône, near Lyon in Isère, indicates the prefecture of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region.
“The A7 motorway is now closed to traffic in both directions between Valence and Chasse-sur-Rhône until Thursday May 19 at 6 a.m.”, she clarified.
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Update: the A7 motorway is now closed to traffic in both directions between Valence and Chasse-sur-Rhône until Thursday May 19 at 6:00 a.m. https://t.co/raVLrAg9HY pic.twitter.com/En418UHuKZ
— Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Rhône region (@prefetrhone) May 18, 2022
The driver of the light vehicle seriously injured
The accident happened late Wednesday morning. According to the public prosecutor of Vienna, Audrey Quey, quoted by The Liberated Dauphine , “a Kia-type car was seen swerving from the Reventin-Vaugris tollbooth exit towards Lyon”. Near Chasse-sur-Rhône, “the car, continuing to zigzag on the highway, crashed. Unable to avoid it, the truck crashed into the car before going to bed”.
The driver of the light vehicle, aged 70, was taken to hospital in absolute emergency after being resuscitated, explains the daily.
Blood samples were taken from the female driver and the tanker driver; those of the latter, the only known ones, turned out to be negative, adds our colleagues. The truck driver escaped unscathed.
Leaks of hazardous materials
The heavy goods vehicle, which was transporting hazardous materials, “Lied down on the roadway at the time of the impact causing a leak (drop by drop) of toxic and flammable product”, the prefecture also explained in a press release. Security and rescue services secured a perimeter of 1.5 km around the accident. 110 firefighters are mobilized as well as police and gendarmes.
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INFORMATION FOLLOWING THE CLOSURE OF THE A7 MOTORWAY
Vienna South ?? Chasse-sur-Rhone pic.twitter.com/WnKN3mFdNt— Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Rhône region (@prefetrhone) May 18, 2022
Heavy traffic disruption
The prefecture warned in the afternoon that very major traffic disruptions would continue in the south of the Rhône department, the east of the Loire department and the north and west of Isère.
Diversion routes have been set up between Lyon and Valence via Grenoble, as well as between Montpellier and Lyon via the A75 motorway.
The closure of the freeway has resulted in the congestion of alternative routes. At 8:30 p.m., traffic remained very disrupted on the alternative routes around Chasse-sur-Rhône and Vienne, in particular on the RN 7, according to The Dauphine Libere, which specified that it took more than an hour to drive one kilometer from the toll in the direction of the center of Vienna.
The situation should not return to normal before tomorrow at the end of the morning, according to the prefecture.
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