Friday 13th accident queue, France
Inevitably during quite a bit of motorway/autobahn/autoroute driving backwards and forwards across five countires we would hit a problem somewhere. We didn't get held up once getting to Germany from Norfolk, but the journey from Germany back to France was a bit more problematic...
We'd already got stuck in traffic after an earlier accident, then we hit another queue on the A2 having just crossed from Belgium into France, only 10-15 miles from our hotel. We let a lorry in just in front of us, but then a fireman stepped out with a cone and stopped us, the lorry passing through and not knowing how lucky he was. We sat here for nearly three hours.
It was clearly serious, as a helicopter was brought in which initially landed in a field beside the road. However that was obviously a problem in getting to it, so it took off again and landed on the road, hence the closure. Numerous emergency vehicles turned up, most of which we couldn't see once they'd hurtled down the hard shoulder and to be honest I felt uneasy going further down the road to look.
Eventually another 2-3 helicopters turned up, also landing in the road (see other photo). We didn't know what had happened, but when we eventually got let through we could see a coach completely off the road though luckily still on its wheels. Found this story: translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=ht...
One young lad killed and a number of people injured, suspicion of either speed or the driver nodding off. Very sad, we couldn't feel bad about getting stuck for so long when it was clearly pretty grim.
Friday 13th accident queue, France
Inevitably during quite a bit of motorway/autobahn/autoroute driving backwards and forwards across five countires we would hit a problem somewhere. We didn't get held up once getting to Germany from Norfolk, but the journey from Germany back to France was a bit more problematic...
We'd already got stuck in traffic after an earlier accident, then we hit another queue on the A2 having just crossed from Belgium into France, only 10-15 miles from our hotel. We let a lorry in just in front of us, but then a fireman stepped out with a cone and stopped us, the lorry passing through and not knowing how lucky he was. We sat here for nearly three hours.
It was clearly serious, as a helicopter was brought in which initially landed in a field beside the road. However that was obviously a problem in getting to it, so it took off again and landed on the road, hence the closure. Numerous emergency vehicles turned up, most of which we couldn't see once they'd hurtled down the hard shoulder and to be honest I felt uneasy going further down the road to look.
Eventually another 2-3 helicopters turned up, also landing in the road (see other photo). We didn't know what had happened, but when we eventually got let through we could see a coach completely off the road though luckily still on its wheels. Found this story: translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=ht...
One young lad killed and a number of people injured, suspicion of either speed or the driver nodding off. Very sad, we couldn't feel bad about getting stuck for so long when it was clearly pretty grim.