Be careful
It may seem obvious, but a warning never hurts: roadsides can be quite soft due to prolonged rainfall. You need to be careful, as it recently became apparent for a fire brigade.
It is wet in the Netherlands. Drench. This autumn there seems to be almost no end to the rain and that is now clearly noticeable right next to the road. A salvage company warns about this, according to the report A.D after an accident with a fire truck. An unfortunate fire brigade from Woubrugge in South Holland hit the roadside with a fire truck and it happened quickly. The truck sank and ended up in a ditch. For the recovery company, Roy van Rijswijk, it was far from the only incident involving a soft verge in recent times. He sees a trend. There are normally many such storage facilities in his working region, but the soft verges are causing more problems: “I have certainly noticed an increase in recent weeks. We have a lot of peat soil, narrow roads and many ditches in the region. Trucks and vans that have to swerve, they quickly sink due to the weight. We then pull them out again.”
Incidentally, Veilig Verkeer Nederland has not yet noticed at a national level that soft shoulders cause more problems, but the advice is to drive on the left side of the road as much as possible and to reduce speed when encountering oncoming traffic and to seek (eye) contact to gently guide each other. pass. “And preferably, stay off the verge,” the spokeswoman emphasizes. If you end up on the verge, do not slam on the brakes, as this increases the risk of subsidence.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl