It's the mess this Wednesday morning on the A20, near Cahors. Shortly before 6 am, a Bulgarian refrigerated semi-trailer carrying yogurt overturned on a portion of the highway, in the Paris-Toulouse direction in Flaujac-Poujols, PK 367+200. It was after a fuel leak noted on the truck that the driver would have lost control. The 40 -ton machine then overturned on the left flank at the Tréboulou area. The two occupants of the truck were taken care of. A man, unscathed and a slightly injured woman was transported to the Cahors hospital center.
for 6 hours, the heavy goods vehicle which has overturned on both lanes completely has blocked traffic. The highway was closed in the Paris-Toulouse direction, between exit n ° 57 Cahors Nord and Cahors Sud. Motorists are invited to take the north exit, to go through the center of Cahors to reach the exit to the south. A 2.8 km cap formed upstream of the accident. The gendarmes of the Cahors motorway platoon and the Patrouilleurs de Vinci Autoroute are on site to secure the area.
Furthermore, the firefighters had to manage a large leak in the tank of the truck containing 1,000 liters of diesel. Thanks to the reinforcement of the Vinci Autoroutes teams, the leak could be controlled and the dumped diesel was isolated in a retention basin in order to avoid any risk of pollution.
Evacuated yogurts
cemercredi, little Before 10 a.m., the emergency services are no longer present on site. A crane is expected to raise the truck. But he must be emptied of his cargo before being evacuated. Suffice to say that the current operation takes time, the yogurts are evacuated by small quantities. Traffic could be restored in the direction of Toulouse, the time for unloading operations, shortly after 10 hours. "While the cargo of food products from the trailer lying on the highway tracks is being evacuated, traffic has been restored towards Toulouse and traffic is deflected by the rest area of the Combe Tréboulou West, located near the place of the accident, "explains Vinci. A punctual cut of the A20 will then be necessary to lift the accidental heavy goods vehicle.
"Once the heavy goods vehicle loads, lifting operations, started since the end of the morning, required To momentarily cut, around 1:20 pm, traffic on the A20 motorway towards Toulouse, ”tell the Vinci Autoroutes teams. Until 3 p.m., the exit was compulsory and the entrance forbidden to all vehicles in Cahors Nord. After the evacuation of the accident vehicle, the Vinci Autoroutes teams were cleaning up the roads. Around 3 p.m., traffic returned to normal but is always carried out on a track in every direction at the height of the accident.
