After losing control, a heavy goods vehicle overturns on the Côte de la Cavalerie at the entrance to Millau

Les pompiers millavois sont intervenus sur cet accident qui n'a fait qu'un blessé, le conducteur du poids-lourd Midi Libre – GUIGNARD CELIAN

The heavy goods vehicle, the only one involved, collapsed on the descent of the RD 809, at a place called Puech-Nègre, this Tuesday, July 16 around 6 p.m.

This Tuesday, July 16, around 6 p.m., a heavy goods vehicle overturned on the La Cavalerie coast. The accident occurred on the descent of the RD 809, at the place called Le Puech Nègre.

The driver, for reasons still unknown, lost control on a bend. The truck smashed through the railing before being stopped by the dense vegetation there.

Part of the cargo from the 38-ton set – animal feed – spilled onto the roadway. The driver, the only one involved, was only slightly injured. On site, 9 firefighters intervened to remove him from his cabin. Aged around thirty, he was evacuated in relative emergency to the Millau hospital center.

Traffic, stopped for a moment by the police in the direction Millau-La Cavalerie, resumes very gradually in a single file alternating.