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Accident on the B93 near Berthelsdorf in the Saxon district of Zwickau
Photo: Bernd März / picture alliance / dpa / B & S
In parts of Germany, slippery roads have caused traffic delays and so far mostly minor accidents.
Early morning rain fell on frozen ground in many places, turning streets and footpaths into slides.
In the Upper Palatinate, a truck drove into a guardrail.
The Autobahn 93 near Weiden was subsequently closed, the police said.
Nobody got hurt.
In Saxony, according to the police, there have been more accidents in the districts of Zwickau and Leipzig since 5 a.m.
In an accident on a bridge on the B93 near Berthelsdorf near Zwickau, four vehicles crashed into the guardrail or landed in the ditch.
Chemnitz zoo and Erfurt zoo closed
In the city of Leipzig, too, streets and paths were partly as smooth as glass.
According to the police, most of the accidents were sheet metal damage - there were no serious injuries.
There were also a number of minor accidents in Lower Saxony.
According to the police, the districts of Göttingen and Hameln-Pyrmont were particularly affected.
The smoothness also had other effects: the zoo in Chemnitz and the zoopark Erfurt will be closed on Monday.
A spokeswoman for the Erfurt Zoo said it was as smooth as a mirror on the entire site.
The German weather service had predicted slipperiness in parts of the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt in the morning.
The situation will only relax in the morning, said a DWD expert.
bbr / dpa
