2024-03-23 06:47:00
the essentials A car stopped on the emergency lane on the A61 was hit by a heavy goods vehicle which lay down on the road, in Montgiscard in Haute-Garonne, Friday evening.
The results could have been dramatic. There are “only” four injured in relative emergency. Friday evening, at 9 p.m., on the A61 in Montgiscard in Haute-Garonne in the Narbonne-Toulouse direction, a car stopped on the emergency lane was hit head-on by a heavy goods vehicle.
Following the impact, the car was thrown into the embankment and its occupants were trapped inside. In the process, the truck rolled onto its side “beyond the slide”, according to the firefighters’ account. The heavy goods vehicle was transporting fruit and vegetables.
The three occupants of the car and the truck driver were injured. They were transported in a relative state of emergency, according to the SDIS31 qualifier, to a Toulouse hospital.
The cause of the collision and the breakdown of the light vehicle are not yet known.
36 firefighters and 12 vehicles from the emergency centers of Montgiscard, Ramonville, Villefranche-de-Lauragais and Toulouse-Atlanta intervened. The firefighters called two extrication vehicles.
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