On Thursday morning, a truck suddenly caught fire on the Semmering expressway (S6) and was fully ablaze. The operation is currently causing a kilometer-long traffic jam in the morning traffic.
The ÖAMTC announced this in a press release on Thursday morning. The roadblock that was set up has resulted in a traffic jam of around three kilometers between Leoben West and Leoben East in the direction of Vienna. The fire-fighting and clean-up work is also expected to take longer. The cause of the full-scale fire is still unclear.Similar case in CarinthiaOn Wednesday evening, a truck also caught fire on the Southern Autobahn (A2) in Carinthia. The vehicle, which had already been parked on the hard shoulder, was badly damaged. No one was injured, the police said. A district fire investigator from the police determined that a technical defect in the vehicle was the possible cause of the fire.
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