The load scattered in the ditch, the highway closed for hours: Wednesday afternoon, a truck rolled over on the Innkreisautobahn near Ried (Upper Austria) and came to rest on the side half in the ditch, half on the road. The cleanup was complicated.
The emergency services were alerted just before 3 p.m. A Croatian (57) is likely to have left the road on the right because of carelessness with his semitrailer on the A8. The truck overturned and then came to a sideways stop. The load – it should be packaging material – was in the ditch. The accident happened shortly after the Ried im Innkreis exit in the direction of Passau. Contrary to initial reports, the truck driver was fortunately uninjured, according to the police Blocked for hours, long traffic jams were the result. According to information from the local police, a backlog of around 23 kilometers had initially formed. Large quantities of fuel escaped. During the complicated rescue work, diversions were set up via Haag and Ried. A larger quantity of fuel is also likely to have seeped into the surrounding soil.
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