The A58 motorway is open again. After three collisions by road Zealand was virtually closed all day Tuesday, but around 22:15 in the evening could traffic across all lanes again. That reported the ANWB
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Tuesday afternoon around quarter past four went there for a lane to open Middelburg and at the beginning of the evening even if the other lane open in that direction. However, the other side were the worst accidents happened. This also took the cleanup and investigation work than longer. The guardrail had to be repaired, according to the Safety.
Heavy Injured
The collisions killed two people and hit one person seriously injured. Another 27 others were wounded lighter. At three locations on the only highway Zealand cruised around 8:00 pm about 150 cars on display. The two deaths on the stretch of road from Middelburg in the direction of Bergen op Zoom. They both come from Middelburg and traveled separately.
Emergency Services
Immediately after the accident tore emergency massively. According to Han Polman, the commissioner of the King in the province, there was “good and act quickly.” There was quick assistance from surrounding regions and also for motorists who were stranded, help was fast, he said, based on his first impressions.
Unimaginable
Polman left the festivities on Budget Day in The Hague. “I want to express my sympathy and I can not go to expire. Mesh shorts” He called the events “unthinkable”. “New Zealand has only one and that is the A58 motorway. And given the size and the number of people affected, this is a horrible tragedy. “Mayor Jan Lonink Terneuzen, president of the Safety Zeeland, called it a” horrible accident “,” for Zeeland notions of unprecedented proportions. “
Heard
Drivers and passengers who experienced multiple collisions were collected in a sports hall in Arnemuiden. Also in Heinkenszand and Driewegen people could visit. Some of the cars involved could leave yourself some 70 cars were abandoned or were so badly damaged that they could no longer drive. Those cars have been brought by the salvors to Zeelandhallen in Goes, where people can pick up or with the insurance company can talk.
Website
The Red Cross was active along the highway, but also on the Internet. For the first time the website ikbenveilig.nl deployed in the Netherlands and with success. About 45 people signed up on the website where you can indicate that it is okay with you, so that family members can breathe a sigh of relief and communication after a disaster is easier
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