Waste in a garbage truck caught fire on Thursday, so the driver had to stop on the A2. The driver has emptied his garbage truck on the highway, the fire brigade is on site. According to Rijkswaterstaat, there is considerable smoke development from the fire, traffic has come to a standstill.
The truck is on fire just before the Batadorp junction, to the A58 towards Tilburg. The fire will take some time to extinguish, the fire service said. They are on site with two fire trucks and a water truck.
More than an hour late
Rain and crowds caused major traffic jams on the Brabant highways on Thursday morning. You were stuck for more than an hour on various highways. The longest traffic jams have now been considerably shortened and traffic is moving again in most places.
The longest traffic jams were on the A2 and the A58. On the A2 from Maastricht to Eindhoven, the aftermath of an accident caused a delay of more than an hour near Maarheeze. On the A58 there was a traffic jam of sixteen kilometers at the peak after an accident involving three cars between the De Baars and Best interchanges.
South of the country
Nationally, most traffic jams were in the south of the country on Thursday. Shortly after 08:00 there were more than 820 kilometers of traffic jams nationwide, still well below the record of 972 kilometers on November 17.
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