Because of a accident occurred on Eastern ring road to Milan, there are severe slowdowns on the route. The protagonist of the accident was a truck which he transported diesel liquid, which overturned after the driver lost control of the vehicle. The man is currently hospitalized in code yellow at the San Raffaele hospital.
The accident with the truck that leaked diesel fuel
It occurred today – Monday 15 April 2024 – a accident on the A51, eastern ring road of Milan, the motorway that serves the suburban area of the Lombardy capital in its eastern part. The accident occurred near the Cologno exit.
According to the first information gathered so far, the accident involved only one vehicle, a heavy vehicle carrying a flammable materialmost likely liquid diesel.
The section of the eastern ring road of Milan where the accident occurred in which a truck overturned, releasing diesel fuel onto the road
For reasons yet to be ascertained, the man driving would have suddenly lost control of the heavy vehicle, which then overturned onto the road. Many liters of the transported liquid then leaked from the truck.
The arrival of help on the eastern ring road in Milan
Following the accident, occurred shortly after middaythe rescuers from Areu (Regional Emergency Emergency Agency), the firefighters of the Via Messina Command, who arrived with two teams including the Nbcr Unit (Nuclear, biological, chemical, radiological), and the police officers rushed to the scene. Road.
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The medical staff who arrived at the scene of the accident immediately took the driver of the heavy vehicle into custody, a 43-year-old man currently admitted under yellow code to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.
There would not be other people or vehicles involved in the accidentfollowing which the fire departments closed part of the roadway, so as to make the motorway section safe, removing the diesel fuel leaked from the truck.
Slow traffic on the Eastern ring road
Following the work of the firefighters who rushed to the scene, the traffic police officers were also busy findings necessary for the reconstruction of the dynamics which led to the heavy vehicle overturning.
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The work of the rescuers obviously caused traffic delays on the route, which over time have formed queues of vehicles even several kilometers long.
Shortly after the accident, in fact, there were reports of “queues for 3 km due to an accident between the SP208 Carugate junction: Brugherio Nord and the Cologno M. Est service area in the direction of the A1 Milan-Naples connection”. At the moment though with traffic on the Eastern ring road expected to resume regularly.
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