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The highway was closed in both directions following a fire that broke out early Tuesday morning.
A serious accident occurred on the A1 motorway this Tuesday morning. Consequence: the A1 is closed “in both directions near Roissy-en-France (kilometer point 18)“, announced the prefecture of Val-d’Oise on X (formerly Twitter), which calls for the greatest caution while a “fire» is in progress and that “the presence of loading on the roadway» could cause an accident.
According to Sytadin, which provides traffic status information in real time, it would be a “deadly accident» occurred at 5:38 a.m. this morning, involving at least three heavy goods vehicles. One of the vehicles, which was transporting around 80 cans of fuel oil intended for auxiliary stoves, caught fire. The fire then spread to the two other heavy goods vehicles.
The information site attached to the prefecture of Paris and Île-de-France specifies that “local deviations» have been put in place, in particular to access the airport. To reach Paris, you must now take the RD317 from Saint-Witz or Survilliers.
“No impact on air traffic”
For its part, Paris Aéroport warns onaccess to Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport is likely to be seriously disrupted”. A disruption which was still in progress at 10:30 a.m., in both directions of traffic. On the other hand, the accident did not have “no impact on air traffic», Specifies the institution mid-morning.
In total, no less than 78 firefighters were engaged on site. The latter call for “avoid the area“, while the extinction “is in progress“. According to them, the accident involved three heavy goods vehicles on the A1, after the Roissy slopes, towards Paris.
The reopening of the A1 motorway in the Paris-province direction was planned for the morning but will require more time in the opposite direction, according to the firefighters.