Ironically, on Christmas Day, a series of accidents occurred on the A8 - due to sleet.
18 people were injured, three of them seriously.
At the first Christmas party a whole series of accidents occurred on the Autobahn 8 between Augsburg and Stuttgart in Bavaria.
The police counted eight accidents with 18 injured - three people were seriously injured.
The reason for the problems was apparently "sudden snowfall".
Burgau - A violent series of accidents occurred on the
A8
in
Bavarian Swabia
- apparently because of
sleet
.
In a short time there were
eight accidents
in a row with a total of
18 injured
.
Two men and a woman were seriously injured on the afternoon of Christmas Day, the remaining 15 people were slightly injured, as a police spokesman for the dpa news agency said on Friday evening.
Between the junction
Jettingen-Scheppach and Günzburg
,
a total of eleven vehicles were involved in accidents
in both directions due to
slush
on the roads.
"It was a bad weather front that came from the north and led to sudden snowfall," the spokesman said.
A8: Series of accidents in sudden snow - car skids into the scene of the accident, first aiders injured
According to the information, there was also a
first aider
among the slightly injured
.
He wanted to help a seriously injured woman and was hit by a car that threw into the scene of the accident.
The motorway was
blocked
in the
direction of Munich
for around three hours, in the
direction of Stuttgart
it was around five hours because
oil had
leaked
on the road and
had to be removed.
On Sunday evening,
however
, the offer
bayerninfo.de
no longer
reported
any obstructions on the route.
For the rescue workers it was a full-
blown large-scale operation
.
There were twelve rescue vehicles, five ambulance vehicles, four command vehicles and two helicopters on site.
A provisional ambulance center was also set up at the scene of the accident.
The portal
all-in.de
reported
property damage
in the “low six-digit range”.
(
dpa / fn
)