This Friday morning, in Valenciennes, in the North, a heavy goods vehicle collided with a gantry on a bridge in circumstances which remain to be determined, we learned from the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) .
By some miracle, the driver was only slightly injured.
Traffic on the Villars bridge, in Valenciennes, is prohibited for vehicles over 1.90 m high.
A ban largely materialized by signage and by gantries on which panels are affixed.
However, a mixer truck, much higher than this limit, tried to enter it on Friday.
The cabin of the partially decapitated truck
The driver was also driving at a good pace when his vehicle hit the crossbar of the gantry.
Under the violence of the impact, right at the level of the windshield, the gantry ended up being unsealed from its anchorage to the ground after having decapitated part of the cab of the truck.
The driver could have suffered the same fate as his vehicle.
Fortunately, he only escaped slightly injured, according to the firefighters.
However, the latter had to extricate him before they could examine him in their ambulance.
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