The day of the operation return of Sant Joan passes with kilometer queues in the AP-7 motorway: a bus caught fire this Sunday morning in La Jonquera (Girona) and cut a lane off the road. The passengers have escaped unharmed, but the incident has caused since 12:30 p.m. retentions of more than 5.5 kilometers in the north direction (France), reports the Servei Català de Trànsit.
The events occurred around 9:35 a.m. in the point 3.5 of the motorway. To the place they have moved seven crews of firefighters of the Generalitat to put out the fire. The passengers have left the vehicle under their own power and they did not need health care by the troops of the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) displaced, the emergency services have indicated.
At first, the authorities have cut off traffic on the motorway, as well as road number 2 (La Jonquera), but they have finally been able to open two lanes.
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The impact on traffic is currently registered between agulluna and The Jonquerainforms Transit. The alternative route is the N-II. However, this road It also adds more than 5.5 kilometers of tails.
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