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.
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