The Brussels ring highway was totally opened on Wednesday afternoon after being closed for hours following a deadly accident with a truck.
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Yesterday at 12:35
Round 5 am a truck overturned on the Brussels ring highway close to Zaventem-Henneaulaan. The truck went via the central reservation.
“On Wednesday morning, a tractor-trailer, loaded with grain, partly ended up over the central reservation on the outer ring highway,” mentioned public prosecutor Ingrid Moriau. “The motive force of the tractor-trailer, a 54-year-old man, was pronounced useless on the scene.”
In response to our data, the sufferer is from Tervuren. No different autos had been concerned within the accident.
The general public prosecutor’s workplace appointed a site visitors knowledgeable. “Preliminary findings point out that the trailer struck the guardrail on the suitable aspect, inflicting the tire to come back unfastened. The automobile due to this fact grew to become uncontrollable and began to slip in the direction of the stone median of the freeway. There it’s utterly tilted.”
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After the accident, the Brussels ring highway was closed in each instructions in Zaventem. “The primary observations needed to be made and due to this fact site visitors was utterly stopped,” says Bruyninckx. Simply after 11 a.m., the Brussels outer ring highway is totally free and the inside ring highway is partly free. The observe was totally cleared round 11:30 am.
Hours of inconvenience
The site visitors jams had been huge. “Usually 100,000 automobiles cross there per day in each instructions. Even with one or two lanes, the site visitors is simply too massive. It’s a long-term nuisance,” Bruyninckx mentioned. “Not solely on the ring, however the accident additionally has an impact on the upcoming highways. For instance, there are already site visitors jams on the E40.”
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