Yesterday Susan and I were driving in to Tours in preparation for a couple of
days work. We had just entered the Autoroute A10 to skirt Tours, when we were
greeted by this sight.
The open road in front of us is the slip road onto the Autoroute
The A10 in Tours is reduced to two lanes at the moment (rather than the customary three) to accommodate an upgrade. The inside lane next to the dividing barrier is closed and coned off to stop people using it, which had an unexpected benefit. Both remaining lanes were full and stationary, there was a drift of smoke visible ahead, and no-one was going anywhere except for a steady stream of emergency vehicles that were using the closed lane.
We reached the head of the slip road, turned off our engine, and waited. At one stage we had to restart and move as far as we could to allow a police car to pass us on the inside, but basically we sat for about 20 minutes not knowing what was going on.
Eventually things started moving slowly, and we eased into the flow of traffic. At the scene of the emergency there was a line of pompier, police, and autoroute vehicles, and a very sorry looking burned out small silver Peugeot (we think). It was severely damaged front and rear, and most of the plastic pieces had disappeared in the fire. We hope everbody involved is safe, but as I type this there is nothing in the newspaper,
You can almost see the burnt car, surrounded by firemen
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