The A59 from the Zonzeel junction towards Den Bosch has been closed at the Empel junction since three o’clock on Sunday night. A gritter overturned on the connecting road to the A2 towards Utrecht. It had to be salvaged.
When the gritter tipped over, the guardrail and asphalt were damaged. Repair is necessary. Traffic wanting to drive from the A59 towards Utrecht is advised to drive towards Rosmalen and then turn onto the A2. Rijkswaterstaat hopes to be able to open the connecting road near Empel around nine o’clock on Monday morning.
Accidents occurred in several places in the Netherlands due to icy conditions. For example, the A28 from Zwolle to Assen was closed due to a jackknifed truck combination and on the A6 between Almere-Stad and Almere-Haven a parallel carriageway was closed due to a jackknifed truck combination.
In our province, apart from the overturned gritter on the A59 near Empel, the problems seem to be not too bad. Due to the slippery conditions, the KNMI has issued code orange for our province until eight o’clock on Monday morning.
According to ProRail, the start-up of train traffic has been going ‘according to plan’ since half past six. This means that the trains are running according to the schedule that they would also run without winter weather. “But here and there in the region a number of extra rush-hour trains are not running.”