Around 8 am, the driver of a lorry transporting 2,000 car batteries to England lost control of his vehicle and suddenly veered off the RN10 road and involuntarily turned onto a frontage road. A few meters further, the lorry tipped over, straddling the road pavement and an adjacent field, in spreading a large quantity of sulphuric acid. The driver was not hurt. Fire-fighters and the chemical emergency squad were at the scene immediately to recover as quickly as possible this highly corrosive acid and avoid pollution. A safety perimeter was set up and the squad team, equipped with special impermeable full-pressure suits (weighing 17 kg each), collected one by one the 2,000 batteries, amounting to a total weight of 24 tonnes. They filled two sealed 18cu.m dumpsters supplied by a subcontractor before spreading the slaked lime over the roadway in order to neutralise the acid; they proceeded by removing a 30-cm layer of ground near the pavement in order to avoid pollution via infiltration. A specialist subsequently recovered all these wastes. The zone was fully cleaned by the end of the day.