One person has died, and his two children have sustained critical injuries in an accident on the eastbound E40 at Gistel in West Flanders. The accident caused the complete closure of the motorway on Thursday afternoon.
One person dead and two children in a critical condition after motorway smash
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The accident happened just before the Gistel turnoff. Work that was being carried out on the motorway’s central reservation area had caused a small tailback of traffic.
A Dutch-registered car crashed into the back of a lorry that was at the tail end of the traffic jam. The driver of the car, a Dutch national in his 40s died at the scene. His two sons aged 10 and 12 were taken to hospital with life threatening injuries.
The accident caused the closure of the E40 at Gistel. Traffic was diverted via Middelkerke.