Ice early morning makes for slick roads across the country. Photo ANP / Lex van Lieshout
The number of accidents caused by icy morning rising rapidly. Between 4:00 pm and 6:30 pm came to the Traffic Department (VID) 49 reports of accidents on the roads. The smoothness started in the west and pulls eastward.
Early in the morning were mainly in the north and west driving conditions dangerous due to ice, the VID warned. On the A7 at the height of Purmerend came a truck standing across the road. Earlier in the night happened on the A59 at Drunen also with the team bus NEC says Omroep Brabant. There are many single accident happened where the guardrail was hit. On the N11 and the A8 was hit multiple times. In most cases, there was only material damage. According to the VID was gently driven on slippery roads.
Gritters Rijkswaterstaat his last night preventive way gone. It was worked with a higher dose of salt. This morning the gritting follow the rain line. “We straw as long as the storms occur,” said a spokesman. Salt ‘work’ hard on black ice. Problem is that the salt is not properly broken in, because this morning relatively little traffic on the road.
No trains around Utrecht Central
At several places in the country had trains this morning also suffer from the winter weather. First driving around Amsterdam fewer trains through ice on the catenary. Around 7:00 NS reported that around Utrecht Central Station this morning no trains in connection with the bad weather. This disturbance delivers extra travel time of more than an hour. Are expected to be around 9.00 again trains. The same goes for the train service to and from Alkmaar
Between Eindhoven and Venlo and Den Bosch and Sittard, NS still a custom schedule:. Drive there fewer trains there. This scheme is expected to 12:00.
Code orange due to extreme weather
The whole country is since yesterday KNMI code orange for extreme weather. The ice is slowly eastward. In the west, the sleet in the morning over there in rain and disappears smoothness; in the interior of the ice turns into snow. Especially in the east it can stay still long smooth expects KNMI.
Also struggling abroad with the effects of winter weather. in Belgium yesterday code orange issued for the expected ice and snow. The Frankfurt airport holds today account for delays and cancellations of flights. Several centimeters of snow are predicted there. (Reuters)
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