Faced with accidents in the hoppers, the Métropole is launching work
Faced with the fashionable accidents of Rouen (Seine-Maritime), the Metropolis has decided to act. Trucks, vans, motorhomes and other caravans that rush into these underground passages without paying attention to the signs clearly indicating the authorized heights, it has been a trend for years. And that amuses a lot of Internet users, mocking, who regularly post photos.
If you are not from #Rouen, you may not know that our national sport is the embedding of caravans and vans in the hoppers (small tunnels). Accidents without injury (except the ego of the drivers), so we can laugh.
I made a top 5, 100% subjective ⤵ pic.twitter.com/8kiPccNLhk
— Simon Louvet (@simonlouvet_) December 16, 2021
Since this Monday, and throughout the month of February 2022, work will be carried out to try to put an end to the show. The Rouen Normandy Metropolis will equip the hoppers (Belgians, Boieldieu and Corneille) with automatic barriers and video surveillance in order to be able to control their openings and closings remotely. And in the future, “this device will be reinforced by an automatic accident detection system”, indicates the community in a press release
relayed by 76actu. It will identify vehicles stopped in the hoppers, the presence of pedestrians and those vehicles with the same size that are too large and which launch when, and will allow the hopper to be closed to avoid an accident or a secondary accident.
GPS sometimes misconfigured
During this work, the hoppers will be closed during the day on weekdays. According to Hélène Régnouard, head of the Dirno information and traffic management center, motorhomes are the first vehicles affected by these spectacular accidents. “These are very busy vehicles during the summer, but often users are not used to driving them and forget that the vehicle is higher than their usual car”, she commented. on France Bleu, after a nice series of embeddings.
She also pointed to the fact that the drivers were often foreigners and were not therefore familiar with French road operations or their GPS, “sometimes poorly configured”.