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Snow also fell in the Taunus in Hesse
Photo: Boris Roessler / dpa
Snow and slippery roads have blocked traffic in southern Germany: the police in Bavaria reported several accidents on Monday evening and Tuesday night.
In Selb on the Czech border, several people were injured when, according to police, a woman skidded with her vehicle on Monday and slipped into oncoming traffic.
There her car crashed into an oncoming car.
The woman was seriously injured.
A person in the other vehicle was seriously injured.
Three other inmates were slightly injured.
Heidelberg: Bus slips off the road
In Heidelberg, a bus slipped off a slippery road and had to be recovered.
As a police spokesman announced on Tuesday, the bus was stuck in the ground next to the road on Monday.
However, there were no passengers on the bus at the time of the accident;
the driver was unharmed.
The road had to be completely closed for around two hours.
The German Weather Service (DWD) continues to expect winter weather, with widespread snowfall in the southern half.
On the Brocken and Fichtelberg there should be storms on Tuesday, in the Alps and in the western part of the Alpine foothills even heavy squalls are expected.
has / dpa
