Alexandre Bozio 16:43 p.m., January 09, 2024, modified at 16:45 p.m., January 09, 2024
In order to limit the risks that could result from new heavy snowfalls in Île-de-France, the Paris police prefecture announced on Tuesday the triggering of level 2 of the ice snow plan. As a result, some roads will have their speed limited to 70 km/h.The snow surprised his world on Tuesday morning. At the end of the morning, nearly 400 cars remained blocked on the roads in Île-de-France due to bad weather at night. Part of the A13 motorway even had to be closed. While new snowfalls could affect the region, the Paris police prefecture has triggered level 2 of the ice snow plan in order to limit the consequences of new bad weather. The measures were detailed in a statement published on X (ex-Twitter).
⚠❄ Snow | Activation of level 2 of the #neige and #verglas plan in #IDF: precautionary measures, in particular the limit of 70km/h on certain roads and the prohibition of overtaking manoeuvres for vehicles of +7.5 tonnes on these same axes. Read our press release... pic.twitter.com/Y5sdvwkevA
— Préfecture de Police (@prefpolice) January 9, 2024
Limited speed
Concretely, from this Tuesday 14 pm, the speed is limited to 70km / h on all the "structuring axes of Île-de-France". This applies in particular to the A13, the N118, the A6, the N104, the A115, the A15 and the A10.
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The activation of this level 2 also entails the prohibition of manoeuvring for all vehicles over 7.5 tonnes on all these same axes. In its press release, the prefecture also mentioned a number of recommendations in case of travel. In the rest of the country, Haute-Savoie, Manche, Yvelines, Essonne, Calvados, Orne, Eure and Eure-et-Loir have been placed on orange alert for snow and ice until Wednesday morning.