The police blocked off the motorways during the night due to a heavy transport.
By Claas Michaelis
Kassel / Hessisch Lichtenau. The police
completely blocked the A7 and A49 motorways several times during
Tuesday night. A heavy goods transport had started from Hessisch
Lichtenau and had travelled along the B7 trunk road to the
motorway. Although the destination was Hanau, the 45 metre long
truck with a construction machine on its load platform travelled
north first. The transport firm's manoeuvres required real accuracy
to the nearest centimetre. And so the heavy goods truck was unable
to drive directly onto the A7 southbound carriageway at Kassel-Ost
interchange. Otherwise the risk of the 6.90 metre wide vehicle
damaging bridges would have been too large. Enough space was only
available in the direction to the north.
Turning in Lutterberg
At the Lutterberg exit the truck then turned to drive towards
Hanau. Nevertheless, it was unable to drive south on a direct
route. At the Kassel-Mitte interchange the truck first drove in the
wrong direction on the A 49 motorway. But nothing could happen as
the police had blocked off the whole motorway.
It then travelled across the Lohfeldener Rüssel in the right
direction on the A49, explained Sabine Knöll, press officer in
North Hesse's police headquarters. But this journey didn't last
long either. The heavy goods truck left the motorway again at the
Wabern junction. It then continued on the B253 trunk road to
Homberg, where the driver steered the 255 tonne freight back onto
the A7 motorway.
However, the heavy goods truck did not reach its destination
yesterday. The articulated truck first drove across the
Hattenbacher Dreieck junction onto the A5 motorway. After
travelling for several hours, man and machine stopped at Berfa
service area near Alsfeld for a break until around 22 hrs. The
construction machine is to be loaded onto a ship in Hanauer port.
It will then continue its journey on the River Main and River
Rhine. The motorways will then no longer have to be blocked.
Source: HNA Kassel dated 10.04.2008
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