Overview
- Nationwide congestion peaked near 690 kilometers during the morning rush, with crashes and closures including a truck accident that shut the A27 near Nieuwegein and later ice-related lane closures on the A2 by Oudenrijn.
- Rijkswaterstaat asked drivers to avoid the Utrecht region as passing snow kept roads hard to navigate, and said ploughs and gritters were hindered by the same queues they needed to clear.
- Authorities deployed 577 gritters, 630 snowploughs and about 1,500 staff and had spread more than 6.5 million kilos of salt by midmorning, with emergency de‑icing machines used around Utrecht.
- Public transport was heavily disrupted, with U‑OV buses and trams in Utrecht halted for the day, partial restarts of bus services in parts of Gelderland, and rail services cut or delayed by switch and signal failures.
- KNMI issued code orange this morning in affected provinces and expects ongoing hazards, with a risk of freezing rain on Tuesday and widespread snowfall on Wednesday and NS operating a winter timetable on Tuesday.