An impressive road accident occurred overnight Wednesday to Thursday in the Puy-de-Dôme.
At around 1 a.m., the driver of a heavy vehicle lost, for some unknown reason, control of his vehicle, which lay down on the A71, reports
La Montagne
.
A coach belonging to the Flixbus company, which was traveling in the opposite direction, could not prevent the violent collision.
The accident occurred near Champs, on a portion under construction, and therefore reduced to two lanes.
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Spectacular collision between a Flixbus coach and a semi-trailer, on the A71, in Champs (# PuydeDôme).
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- The Mountain (@lamontagne_fr) September 9, 2021
Three minor injuries
All of the merchandise from the truck, packets of sandwich bread, spilled over the road… but also in the damaged bus.
“We were all starting to fall asleep.
And there, suddenly, the driver said: "There is going to be an impact."
[…] I closed my eyes.
And when I reopened them, I had a bunch of sandwich breads on my face.
They got back on the bus.
It was everywhere !
», Told our colleagues a passenger of the bus.
Three people were injured: the driver of the bus, a passenger and the driver of the truck.
They were taken to hospital.
A second bus came to pick up the passengers to bring them to their final destination, Brittany.
The motorway was able to reopen around 10:30 am.
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