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Accident on the A81 in Baden-Württemberg: Dangerously slippery
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In many areas of Germany, winter weather with snow and slippery roads hinders traffic.
In Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, the interior ministries reported heavy snowfalls at night.
In Hesse in particular, there were dozens of accidents on the streets with several seriously injured.
According to information from Deutsche Bahn, there were initially no major disruptions on the routes throughout Germany.
The North Hesse police headquarters in Kassel reported 13 weather-related accidents with a total of nine seriously injured by early Tuesday morning.
According to a spokesman, the last serious accident to date was reported at around 1 a.m., and nothing major was added in the following hours.
There were around 25 accidents during the night in the area of responsibility of the South Hesse Presidium around Darmstadt.
A tractor-trailer skid on the B47 near Bensheim and the trailer was torn off.
The road was temporarily closed due to salvage work.
The police mostly attributed the accidents from the night to the lack of winter tires.
Black ice on the A7
The weather also caused problems on the roads in Baden-Württemberg.
Around Pforzheim, for example, the police counted eight slippery accidents by early morning.
In southern Lower Saxony, several vehicles crashed on black ice on Autobahn 7: On a sloping stretch between the Drammetal motorway triangle and the Lutterberg junction, it crashed at least three times during the night, as a police spokesman said early in the morning.
The lane to the north was temporarily completely closed, the opposite lane was only passable in one lane.
According to the police, there were no injuries.
Snow, slush and slippery ice also caused many accidents in Bavaria - most of them ended with nothing.
A police spokesman in Upper Bavaria said there were more accidents with sheet metal damage in rush hour traffic, and some people were slightly injured.
The police from Central Franconia also reported numerous traffic obstructions due to slipperiness and broken down cars.
In Thuringia, too, the first flakes fell at night at higher altitudes - for example, the winter sports resort of Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest was wrapped in glittering white.
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