Before nine thirty in the morning it reached 376.5. kilometer of the D1 highway, in the direction of Poland, to a tragic traffic accident. According to preliminary information, the driver of the truck transporting the tank should have stopped on the highway in the right lane, a passenger vehicle stopped behind it, when a truck transporting cars ran into it.
One person suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the accident. “Firefighters rescued one person using hydraulic rescue equipment,” said HZS MSK spokeswoman Kamila Langerová.
“The rescuers could no longer help one person who remained wedged in the crashed car, and the doctor had to declare her dead. A middle-aged man had to be rescued, he showed signs of impaired consciousness and a state of shock, his life was in direct danger. He suffered multiple injuries. Rescuers put him into artificial sleep, secured his airway and switched him to machine-controlled ventilation. After the administration of the drugs, he was airlifted to the Ostrava General Hospital on a critical diet. A middle-aged man with a slight injury to his lower limb was also transported to the same medical facility,” said MSK EMS spokesman Lukáš Humpl.
Currently (10:00) the D1 highway towards Poland is closed. Police officers divert traffic towards Bohumín and Chalupki.
Eva MichalíkováPolice of the Czech Republic
