” The situation is exceptional. “Bison smart has closed red on the day of Saturday in the direction of departures for the first weekend of summer vacation. A peak of 955 km of plugs was recorded at mid-day. “The level of caps is much higher than that of Saturday 13 July 2019,” pointed out Bison futé in a press release.
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Already loaded in the early morning because of the holiday, the movement has further intensified towards the south, in particular, on the A7 because of the accident of a vehicle only a little after 9: 30 a.m. to height of Piolenc (Vaucluse), in which two passengers were killed and two others wounded slightly, according to the operator Vinci Autoroutes. The victims are part of the same family.
massive Downturn
The accident, whose circumstances have not been specified, has immediately generated a massive downturn, which is expected to last the day, the movement is “a way, instead of three, then on two-track’, according to the same source. The travel time to 13 hours was five hours instead of one hour and thirty-five between Lyon and Orange. In the other direction of the highway, a plug of “curiosity” has lengthened to twenty minutes the route of the users.
On the atlantic facade, the holiday makers also had to gnaw their brakes on the A10, that also manages Vinci, highlighting three hours from Poitiers to Bordeaux instead of two to ten hours. For the reverse path, forty-five more minutes. Finally, between Toulouse and Narbonne on the A61, we recorded a travel time of one hour and forty instead of twenty.
On the A43, finally, Bison futé recorded in the mid-day, a cap of 24 km in grenoble-Isère, Saint-Quentin-Fallavier to Cessieu. “This is going to remain tense until the end of the afternoon,” said Vinci Autoroutes. On Sunday, the day will be classified as orange for departures in the Île-de-France and in the Great West.
