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Serious truck accident: A8 partly closed for a long time - large-scale operation with rescue helicopter

2020-09-16T03:29:07.868Z


A serious accident between two trucks on the A8 occurred on Tuesday afternoon. The motorway was partially closed for a long time.


A serious accident between two trucks on the A8 occurred on Tuesday afternoon.

The motorway was partially closed for a long time.

  • The A8 towards Salzburg, height has

    Weyarn

    to

    13:45

    am today

    (September 15th) Tuesday

    a serious accident occurs.

  • According to initial information, two

    trucks

    collided.

    A driver is trapped and seriously injured.

  • The A8 towards Salzburg is closed except for one lane.

Update, 5:01 p.m.:

The motorway is free again.

The traffic jam resolves quickly.

Update, 3:52 p.m.:

The motorway was completely closed for the rescue operation for over 20 minutes.

The left lane has now been released.

The backwater still extends beyond the

Holzkirchen exit

.

The motorway police estimate that the rescue work will continue at least until 4.30 p.m.

“At the moment, the recovery of the trailer truck of the person who caused the accident is in progress, the driver's cab was torn off the tractor unit by the heavy impact and is being recovered using a crane from the Waldschütz company.

Numerous rescue workers from the

Weyarn, Holzkirchen, Miesbach

and

Irschenberg

volunteer fire brigades

and the

Holzkirchen motorway

maintenance facility

are also on duty

. "

Update, 15:46:

The highway patrol wooden churches called the first details about the heavy truck accident:

A 51-year-old motorist from the

Chiemsee

sailed with his

Slovenian truck

the

A8 heading south

on the right lane.

There was heavy traffic and some of it was jammed.

In heavy traffic on the A8 at Weyarn: The truck crashes into a semi-trailer due to carelessness

Due to inattentiveness, despite emergency braking, he crashed into the truck of a 51-year-old Romanian driver in front of him.

The Chiemsee tried to avoid to the right over the hard shoulder but hit the

Romanian's

trailer

with his driver's cab

.

Serious truck accident on the A8: driver's cab badly deformed due to impact - driver suffers multiple trauma

The

driver's cab of

the

person

who caused

the

accident was

so

badly deformed

that he was

trapped

in it and had to be

freed

by the

fire department

.

He retired while a

trauma

and had to with the

rescue helicopter

Gerbracht hospitalized.

The driver of the truck driving ahead got away with the shock. 

Update, 3:42 p.m

.: There will be details about the serious truck accident this afternoon on the A8 shortly.

Update, 3:33 p.m.:

The cleanup continues.

Nothing is known about the condition of the trapped truck driver who was picked up by an ambulance helicopter.

The traffic jam continues to grow towards Hofolding.

Update, 2:55 p.m.:

The left lane has been released again after the serious truck accident on the A8 towards Salzburg.

However, the traffic jam continues to grow and extends from the Weyarn exit to far beyond the Holzkirchen exit.

First report, 2:22 p.m .: Weyarn / A8 -

The Holzkirchen

autobahn police are

currently reporting:

On September

15, 2020 at around 1:45 p.m.

on the A8 towards Salzburg shortly after the Weyarn junction, there was a serious rear-end collision between two trucks.

A truck driver was

locked

in his driver's

cab

and

seriously injured

, so that at that moment the motorway is completely closed and the helicopter is in action for rescue.

The traffic jam currently stretches back to the Holzkirchen exit and continues to grow.

Further information will follow shortly.

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Traffic jam on the A8 towards Salzburg: The motorway is currently completely closed.

© Thomas Plettenberg

All news from Weyarn and the surrounding area always up-to-date and only with us.

Source: merkur

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