Basically a truck carrying tarmac left the road on the 21 bends up to Alpe d’Huez,a ski resort in the French Alps, ends up in a ravine and to compound his difficulties 300kg of tarmac, which would be about 200deg C (?) ends up in his cab Thankfully rescued and taken to hospital with bad burns to his legs.
Difficult to tell from the picture but I think it is the same bend that the British tour operator bus crashed on and caught fire, with tragic consequences, a few years ago.
Except the truck was heading uphill presumably, unless it was a rejected load…
manski:
Basically a truck carrying tarmac left the road on the 21 bends up to Alpe d’Huez,a ski resort in the French Alps, ends up in a ravine and to compound his difficulties 300kg of tarmac, which would be about 200deg C (?) ends up in his cab Thankfully rescued and taken to hospital with bad burns to his legs.
Difficult to tell from the picture but I think it is the same bend that the British tour operator bus crashed on and caught fire, with tragic consequences, a few years ago.
Except the truck was heading uphill presumably, unless it was a rejected load…
Had a few burns from tarmac (especially hot rolled asphalt) myself when loading or sheeting up so I feel for the driver. I remember Moose on here’s father having some splash on his bare arm while loading at the plant and having to go to hospital, if I remember rightly it took his skin off but left the hairs intact.
manski:
Difficult to tell from the picture but I think it is the same bend that the British tour operator bus crashed on and caught fire, with tragic consequences, a few years ago.
Yep, same corner. See the white sign on the cliff wall.
Yes you are right, it is the same, first (or last if descending), bend so it is hard to work out what happened as after the bus crash they built a substantial bund on the outside of the bend and if he was ascending he will have just come up over1km on a 1 in 10 hill to approach the bend
So maybe it was a rejected load There is neither a tarmac or concrete plant in the resort and no other road out, for trucks anyway, so it would not be normal to be descending with a load.
And yes the burns from it must be horrendous
l était 12 h 13, ce jeudi 22 octobre, quand les pompiers ont reçu l’alerte. Un camion benne, transportant plus de 15 tonnes de goudron, s’est renversé dans un ravin dans l’un des premiers virages de la monté vers l’Alpe d’Huez, sur la D211, vers la commune de La Garde, à la limite avec la commune du Bourg d’Oisans.
Translation:-
It was 12.13 this Thursday, 22 October, when the fire service was alerted. A rigid truck carrying more than 15 tons of tarmac, had gone over into a ravine > on one of the first bends going up the D211 towards the commune of la Garde
He was trapped in the cab and the tarmac started to enter into it and actually reached his knees. The fire service were still trying to release him at 14.40.
According to reports more than 300kg of tarmac were in the cab . They had to use special equipment to break the stuff as it had started to solidify,
he had 2nd degree burns to both legs and was airlifted to Lyon hospital
Thankfully rescued and taken to hospital with bad burns to his legs.
