Following the serious accident that occurred on the A1 motorway this Tuesday morning, traffic is still “cut off” in the direction of Paris near the town of Roissy-en-France. The Sytadin site, which provides traffic status in real time, specifies this Tuesday evening that the motorway will still be closed on Wednesday in the province-Paris direction, with “disruptions equivalent to the morning of December 19”. Motorists who plan to reach the capital in the coming days will therefore have to adapt. “In view of the damage to the infrastructure and the nature of the accident, reopening should not take place before December 20, during the day,” warns Sytadin. Traffic in the Paris-province direction gradually resumed at the start of the afternoon.
The cause of this large-scale disruption was a “fatal accident” which occurred at 5:38 a.m. this morning, involving three heavy goods vehicles. In its situation update published at the beginning of the afternoon, the Val-d’Oise prefecture reported three heavy goods vehicles on fire, causing the death of one person. 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.
Throughout the morning, the prefecture had called on motorists to be extremely careful while the “fire” was still in progress and “the presence of loads on the road” could cause an accident. At the start of the afternoon, 80 firefighters, numerous police officers from the CRS motorway and agents from the DIRIF were mobilized to the site.
For the rest of the day and the days to come, Sytadin recommends motorists driving towards Paris to “follow Charles-de-Gaulle, Marne-la-Vallée from Épiais-lès-Louvres (interchange no. 6), to reach the A1 (Paris) to Gonesse via the eastern Roissy bypass (N1104/N104), the N2 and the A3. To access Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, the road information service invites you to take the local diversion via the access to the Roissy platform, following the words “Airport” to join the A1 and the A104. Finally, for those coming from Lille, “the A29 (direction Amiens) and the A16 (Paris) are recommended”.
