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Accident last night in Brandenburg
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Alexander Bergenro;
Christian Guttmann / 7aktuell.de/Alexander Bergenroth
Because of the slippery winter roads, many motorists in the north and south of Germany have been involved in road accidents.
At least two people have died since Thursday afternoon and many more were injured.
In a majority of the cases, people got away with a shock and sheet metal damage.
For some, however, the trip ended fatally. A 19-year-old driver died in a collision between two cars in the Mecklenburg Lake District. The driver of the other car was seriously injured. The cars had collided head-on in a bend in the afternoon on a slippery winter country road near Reinberg for reasons that had not yet been clarified.
In another serious traffic accident in the Lower Saxony district of Stade, a 15-year-old died in the afternoon. Presumably her father, who was driving the car, lost control of the five-person vehicle due to the slippery road surface. It skidded, came off the road, and hit a tree. The driver, his two children aged four and eight and a 15-year-old boy were brought to clinics, some with serious injuries, according to police.
Schleswig-Holstein was hit particularly hard yesterday.
There were at least 190 traffic accidents there after snowfall.
Until late in the evening, Stormarn, the Duchy of Lauenburg, Ostholstein and Lübeck were particularly affected - there were almost 70 accidents caused by ice, as a police spokesman said.
"Almost all sheet metal damage, few slightly injured."
Train cancellations and delays
But the snow didn't just hit drivers hard - train travelers also had to prepare for the winter weather in Schleswig-Holstein.
There were train cancellations and delays in long-distance and regional traffic.
The Deutsche Bahn assumes that the train service will start again from Friday morning without hindrance, said a railway spokesman.
It was also slippery further south in the Bavarian Upper Palatinate.
On the Autobahn 6 near Amberg, a total of 20 cars were involved in nine accidents over a section of about one kilometer.
Six people were slightly injured and taken to hospitals.
The A6 was opened in both directions again after being temporarily closed.
In nearby Regensburg, a bus drove into parked cars.
Around 45 traffic accidents were also recorded in Lower Bavaria.
One person was injured moderately, while the others only caused property damage, the police said.
Three streets were closed because they were not passable due to the slippery ice.
sug / dpa
