This Monday, April 24, around 8:30 a.m., the police officers of the Moulins-lès-Metz motorway CRS intervened in an unusual incident whose consequences could have been dramatic.
A truck driver, victim of a breakdown, stopped on the hard shoulder of the A31, in the Nancy-Luxembourg direction, near the La Maxe service station. When the CRS of the A31 arrived on the scene, the truck driver had just been joined by a repairman commissioned by the company for which he works – a transport company whose headquarters are located in Roncourt, near Metz – , which is strictly prohibited. In the event of an accident on the motorway, only the motorway police are authorized to send a recovery company accredited by the prefecture and which has the necessary safety equipment and know-how.
The worst has been avoided
The repairman reversed the hard shoulder and asked the truck to do the same. The two vehicles continued their trajectory as far as the Maxe service station, on the exit lane of the station, in reverse and therefore in the opposite direction, at a place where several lanes converge from a roundabout. The worst has been avoided.
Each driver was fined for “dangerous parking” and for having taken a lane in the wrong direction.
The head of the company will be fined for non-compliance with the prefectural decree requiring that repairs on the motorway be carried out by approved professionals.
On the other hand, no infringement was noted concerning the coordination of transport, that is to say the weight of the load, the driving hours, etc.
The two drivers, whose analyzes show that they had consumed neither alcohol nor narcotics, were summoned to the motorway PC to carry out the various checks.
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