Sad Story Of A Trucker

[TheShetlandSheepdog]

VRASENE - The E34 remains closed after a serious traffic accident in Vrasene Thursday, "until Saturday or later. Expects the mayor of Beveren, Marc Van de Vijver. Also some parallel roads remain closed as long. Asks the mayor the inhabitants to take into account 'the exceptional situation'. "Avoid the area."


The accident happened Thursday around 13 pm on the E34 in the direction of Knokke. A truck with Dutch license plate tried to overtake other vehicles but went on swinging. The truck was catapulted over the guardrail and crashed into a vehicle from the opposite direction. The lorry was carrying gas cylinders and the blow there was fire in the cabin. The truck driver was killed instantly.

The fire works are still in progress. The expressway continues "even for an indefinite term 'closed, reports the municipality of Beveren. The fire is still the cylinders to damp down. If the last exposed bottles are burnt, the two cylinders can be under the truck inspected. "It is currently unclear whether these are full, empty or leaks. For the sake of the heat it is at this point not yet possible to examine this situation further. The federal traffic police has a fotogrammetrietoestel spot to make 3D images of the situation. In this way, the necessary findings happen faster, "says the council.

Closed until Saturday afternoon?

The N49/E34 remains closed to all traffic between Stekene and Vrasene. The parallel roads remain provisionally closed. Traffic should detour via the E17. "Only when all bottles can be considered safe can be started with the cleanup and hoist work. Thereafter also the road and street yet recovered. Experts of the Roads and Traffic Department study the situation to take. "The necessary preparations

The E34 was this morning more than 24 hours closed in both directions. The complexity of the situation is similar to the problems on the E40 in Erembodegem on 9 and 10 April. There the highway in the direction of Brussels only released after more than 30 hours of traffic by a gas leak when placing noise barriers. When it was reported that a highway in Belgium had never closed by an incident, but as long as in all likelihood the E34 break that record.

Spare wheel

The parquet floor of Dendermonde was now on the spot to investigate. The cause of the accident Presumably, a spare tire of a different truck loose and ended up under the first truck.

"From further police investigation revealed that possibly a spare tire from another truck would be loose on the road would have ended then and would have ended up under the truck involved," said prosecutor spokesman Anthony Schotsaert.

E34 completely closed

Immediately after the accident, the E34 in Vrasene closed to all traffic. The wreck of the burning truck after lying on the central reservation. And the fire needed to extinguish. The entire highway

That caused a dramatic evening in the region around Antwerp. Motorists had for hours, sometimes even three hours queuing. The Flemish Traffic Centre advised everyone to Ghent or via the E17 to drive. The whole region Waasland / Antwerp to avoid the car, he said. Meanwhile, the Red Cross and Civil Protection enabled to share in the waiting motorists. Water

New accident

In the files after the accident Thursday happened a few new accidents, which made the traffic even more. The first accident happened on the E17 in Kruibeke in the direction of Ghent, where two lanes were blocked.

On the E34 in Moerbeke again there was a much worse accident. Then came the driver of a van were killed when he collided with the opligger of a truck. Therefore had to be there as the highway closed.

And Friday morning caused an accident for extra inconvenience. Around thirty reason in traffic on the E17 in Kruibeke two cars for an unknown reason on each other. The left and middle lanes were blocked, the travel time from Ghent rose to more than an hour.


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The real reason is that the truck before him lost his extra wheel.

[Marccc]

R.I.P. Rookie.

[Terrorista310]

R.I.P. Rookie.

Fuck off dude

I feel more sorry for that trucker than the boston victims.

[TheShetlandSheepdog]

+1 Terrorista,and they are both dutchies Marc.
You better don't drive a truck dirty Marc.

[Marccc]

+1 Terrorista,and they are both dutchies Marc.
You better don't drive a truck dirty Marc.

I dont want to become trucker and if you go blabla driving license, i already have one 2 years.

[TheShetlandSheepdog]

1 lane open now so hard crash :/.