A person died Monday morning in a pile-up involving around twenty vehicles on the A72 north of Saint-Etienne (Loire), an accident possibly linked to the ice which caused the closure of a portion of this highway, a-t -we learned from the firefighters and Vinci Autoroutes.
The provisional toll is one dead, three people in absolute emergency and four in relative emergency, according to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS), which sent 80 firefighters to the scene in 35 vehicles.
A truck and twenty cars involved
The accident took place near Vachette, in the direction of Saint-Etienne, between a heavy goods vehicle and several cars.
The A72 has been cut off to traffic in both directions for around 6:40 a.m. between exits number 7 (Montbrison) and number 8 (Andrézieux-Bouthéon), specifies the manager Vinci Autoroutes, and should remain so for several hours.
Bison smart warned his side of the risk of ice on the road.
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