3 people have died in an accident on the E313 motorway at Herentals in Antwerp Province. They were all travelling in a car that crashed into a lorry. The accident happened at the start of Wednesday evening’s rush hour.
At around 4:10pm on Wednesday a car ran into a lorry on the Antwerp-bound E313 motorway. The accident happened at the Herentals East interchange.
The Federal Police said in a statement that "This was a very serious accident”. The car was trapped under the lorry and the lorry had to be lifted up using a crane in order to get the car out.
On Thursday morning it was announced that the three people that were in the car all died in the accident. The accident and another accident in Ekeren (Antwerp) resulted in a difficult drive home for commuters in and around Antwerp.