Neukirchen-Vluyn.
A woman suffered life-threatening injuries in an accident on the A40 on Thursday. The motorway was temporarily closed in the direction of Venlo.
The A40 motorway was completely closed for several hours near Neukirchen-Vluyn in the direction of Venlo on Thursday afternoon. A 77-year-old woman crashed her car and hit a truck. According to police, the accident happened while changing lanes. The woman’s life is in danger, police said.
The woman was trapped in the car, a police spokesman said. Firefighters had to cut the woman out of the wreckage. A rescue helicopter had also been alerted.
A40: Traffic has been diverted to the scene of the accident since 2 p.m
The accident near Neukirchen-Vluyn was reported at around 11:27 a.m. The police blocked the motorway between the Moers junction and the Kerken junction. Drivers are asked to drive around the scene of the accident, a police spokesman said.
At around 2 p.m., the police began to divert traffic to one lane towards Venlo at the scene of the accident, a police spokesman said.
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The WDR reported up to six kilometers of traffic jams in front of the Moers junction in the direction of Venlo. Traffic was also backed up on the A57 in the direction of Kreuz Moers from the direction of the Lower Rhine for several kilometers.
There have also been significant traffic jams on the alternative routes since the accident. Traffic was particularly backed up on the L140 road in Neukirchen-Vluyn and in the towns of Schaephuysen and Aldekerk. In Aldekerk, the streets were sometimes full, even coming from Kamp-Lintfort; because the federal road B510 was also burdened by a lot of alternative traffic.
According to the police, the rescue should last until around 4 p.m., writes the WDR.
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