“Due to an action by French farmers, the E17 just across the French border has been completely closed,” they say at the road police dispatch. “We are therefore diverting traffic from the highway in Menen. The protest quickly led to a traffic jam that stretched beyond the complex in Aalbeke. In that traffic jam, the van crashed into the truck.” The accident causes a traffic jam, the right lane is blocked. Traffic must use the parallel road.
Due to work on the trumpet connection on the R8, people are already queuing at that location every day, even outside rush hours.