On the night of 26 of November 3 People got killed in a traffic accident at the E17 highway (major connection between the Netherlands and France trough Belgium).
At about 4am there was a collision between 2 cars nearby the Deerlijk (W-Flanders) exit. A third car hit the first cars leaving nobody mentionable injured .
While the Deerlijk fire department was placing traffic signs to secure the scene of the crash a 4th car hit the signs and a firefighter, killing him at instant.
The hitting car took fire and also for the 2 occupants rescue wasn’t possible.
1st Sergeant Wouter Vancraeynest age 33 was volunteer FF at the Deerlijk station and professional FF/EMT at the Gent Fire department.
He was also the inspirer of the Deerlijk 100 service (Ambu) bringing lots of experience to the team.
The Deerlijk fire department was in shock and are temporarily out of service, being supported by a psychological team surrounding stations took over the service.
