The accident, which occurred around 6:15 a.m. in the Boulogne-Paris direction, involved nine light vehicles and a heavy goods vehicle, indicates the prefecture in a situation update, specifying that “the current report shows 24 injured people taken care of by the firefighters “.
“The circumstances of the accident are not yet known,” she adds. The highway was closed mid-morning on Sunday, forcing vehicles to take a diversion set up by the departmental council.
The northern third of France was hit by heavy snowfall in the middle of the week, and temperatures remained negative in the days that followed.
“Meteo-France informs of a phenomenon of freezing rain which crossed the northwest and the north at the end of the night” from Saturday to Sunday, indicates Bison Futé, a disturbance which “could last until the beginning of the afternoon noon “.
This phenomenon “is heading east, extending from the north of Allier and Cher to Champagne-Ardennes, Burgundy, Lorraine,” adds Bison Futé.