The accident was fatal. A heavy goods vehicle was involved in an accident on the night of Monday to Tuesday, around 2:25 a.m., on the N 104 at the junction with the A5b at Combs-la-Ville (Seine-et-Marne), according to our information. The driver of the semi-trailer, a 58-year-old man, is believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel. His truck would then have swerved to the outside of the roadway and struck the guardrail before lying in the ditch at kilometer 23.
Crews of firefighters from the Moissy-Cramayel and Lognes fire and rescue centers were dispatched to the scene. Upon their arrival, the emergency services could only note the death of the fifty-year-old whose body was taken to the mortuary room of the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital center (Essonne). An autopsy and post-mortem toxicological analyzes will be carried out there in order to find out if alcohol, drugs or other medications may be the cause of the accident. An investigation is carried out by the prosecution of the Melun judicial court.
The load of the semi-trailer was made up of packages transported for the company FedEx and did not represent any particular danger, the recovery and repair operations of the road unit were able to take place normally.
From 3:40 a.m., the Francilienne in the inland direction was closed to allow the recovery operations of the damaged truck. Traffic was severely disrupted and a diversion was put in place, forcing motorists using the inner roadway to leave the N 104 towards the A5b. The blackout ended shortly before 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning. At that time, the police officers of the CRS motorway company in the east of the Ile-de-France region, on the ground since the alert reporting this accident, still noted 2 km of traffic jam upstream of the accident. A slowdown that should be absorbed in the middle of the morning.