NIJMEGEN, the netherlands – Despite the many warnings in advance to have freezing rain and snow early in the morning to a variety of accidents led to the area highways. The emergency services also have elsewhere the hands full with the consequences of the winter weather.
14.45 pm: The gasstoring in Ede is still not resolved. Employees of the grid manager Liander are busy looking for the cause. Meanwhile, seem to more and more homes affected by the fault.
14.17 hours: Because of the smoothness the old paper is not picked up in Druten, Ewijk, Groesbeek, Malden and Wijchen. Waste collector Dar is not responsible for the waste collectors and drivers path.
14.10 hours: Pressure is not there, but also the A12 at the height of the Pigeons is the slow drive because of the smoothness. Rijkswaterstaat let guidance know that the speed limit is 50 kilometers per hour. (Read below the photo)
13.51 hours: At the glijpartij on highway A348 is a car from the embankment and hit 5 metres away come to a standstill against a tree. The director made a test drive and let us know: “this is not him.”
13.35 hours: The police reported that the driver along the A15 at once a month the water became, died of his wounds.
13.13 hours: According to witnesses, the A348 between Velp and Animals “one big rink’. A number of cars around 12: 30, collide with each other come. No one was injured, but there was a lot of damage.
13.00 hours: In Arnhem is at ijsclub Thialf plenty of skating on natural ice. This morning was the track wiped clean and turned out to be the quality of the ice good enough to get the irons off the fat.
12.40 pm: The police report that the victim of the accident in once a month from Ochten. The man is in critical condition at the hospital. It is not clear how long he was in the water.
12.02 pm: In the accident on the A15 at IJzendoorn turns out to be a car in a ditch along the road to have ended. Emergency services have the victim out of the water got auto saved.
11.50 pm: In the west of the country, the KNMI afgeschaald to ‘code yellow’. In the rest of the country remains at code orange in effect. ‘In the east and southeast of the smoothness in the evening keep in Limburg in the night to Sunday, according to the meteorological office.
11.35 am: On the A73 lost a driver control of the vehicle and collided against the guardrail, at the height of fashion. The driver with unknown injuries at the hospital.
11.20 am: Again, it’s a touch on the A15. Multiple emergency services, including a trauma helicopter were alerted for a accident with injury on the A15, at the height of once a month.
11.10: The police in Velp came this morning not only on snow but also on ‘ice’ on the road.
11.00 am: The emergency services are called to an accident on the Harderwijkerweg in Otterlo. A car with stock aanwagen collided against a tree. The driver was out of his car to be freed.
10.44 pm: On the A73 at Haps lost the driver of a car is the power over the wheel and drove off into the ditch. Not much later, happened on the same road segment, a second accident involving a car in the ditch again.
10.23 hours: The A15 between Ochten and Echteld is enabled again after the bergingswerkzaamheden are completed.
10.02 am: emergency services have also elsewhere the hands full with the consequences of the winter weather. In Arnhem, the netherlands slumped to a dog through the ice on the Immerlooplas. A duikploeg of the fire department rescued the animal.
09.30 am: Again was the A15 again closed between Ochten and Echteld. Cause: an accident with a truck. Traffic was the accident on the hard shoulder to pass. There was also a redirect set.
09.00: Just before 09.00 touched at least one person injured in a collision on the A12 at the height of Stock.
09.00: The A15 between Geldermalsen and Deil is enabled again.
08.40 hours: On A50 at the height of Heelsum lost the driver of a van the power steering. The vehicle with five occupants hit on the head. Certainly one occupant was taken to the hospital.
08.30 hours: On the A12 at Oosterbeek took a market stall, a fishmongers in a collision on the A12 at Oosterbeek. Various emergency services, including a trauma helicopter, were called. This got nobody hurt.
08.00 hours: On the A12 happened just before 08.00 hrs, a collision load at node Maanderbroek, at the height of Ede. An hour earlier, there were several cars at the height of the junction Grijsoord, near Arnhem, the netherlands.
07.40 hours: Again, shivering in a part of Ede. Households in postcode areas 6716 and 6717 through a fault no gas.
07.30: The A15 between Geldermalsen and Deil was closed because of a geschaarde truck. At the height of the junction Valburg was a redirection set. Traffic in the direction of Gorinchem/Rotterdam was advised in the direction of Utrecht follow the A50 and A12. Also at the height of Ochten, Echteld and Tiel happened accidents on the A15.
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The traffic information service (VID) reported approximately 07: 00 already dozens of accidents and collisions in the entire country. An hour later, a small 200 collisions and clashes were reported.
Warning
Because of the wintry conditions applies in the whole country, code orange. People who do not necessarily have, that it’s better not to do, warns the agency.
the Advice
Rijkswaterstaat gives people who do in the car the advice the weather forecast and traffic information are good to keep an eye on and the driving style to adapt to the circumstances. “That means keeping a safe distance and drive slowly.”
Million kilos of salt
To the smoothness to combat the Rijkswaterstaat with major equipment called out. Since last night there is already 4.6 million pounds of salt sprinkled on the highways. All 546 gritting drive, manned by 1,200 people. Smooth is still. If the traffic is low, such as at this time, then the salt is not properly broken in. Against freezing rain helps the salt otherwise not.
Omroep Gelderland spoke with a Gelderse strooiploeg:
Wintry precipitation
In the whole country has for the first time this year it snowed. There is 1 to 3 inches cases, reports Weerplaza. “Today during the day, there is still quite some time wintery precipitation in the form of light freezing rain in the south-east initially as snow. The temperature runs from the west slowly on the smoothness from the end of the morning gradually disappears. In the east and southeast of the smoothness, however, until in the evening to continue."
The wintry precipitation will disappear today during the day slowly from the west. The east and southeast of may until late in the evening to have to deal with snow and/or freezing rain.
The last time that our entire country with snow-making has been a little two years ago, to be exact, on January 24, 2015.
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