Bad rear-end collision with three articulated lorries on A9: driver seriously injured - rescue helicopter in action

There was a serious accident with three trucks on Wednesday afternoon on the A9.

A rescue helicopter is in action.

Update from January 20, 4:11 p.m.:

As the

Freising traffic police

reported, there was a serious

rear-end collision with three articulated lorries

on the A9 towards Nuremberg about 2.5 kilometers after the Allershausen junction

.

Because of previous traffic jams, a 60-year-old professional driver from Austria had to brake his 40-tonne car transporter loaded with two trucks in the right lane.

A 54-year-old professional driver from Ukraine realized this too late and drove up.

A subsequent third truck, driven by a 66-year-old German professional driver, also drove up.

Accident on A9 / Allershausen: the fire brigade can cut the driver out of the truck after an hour and a half

The Ukrainian was

trapped

and could only be

cut out

by the

fire brigade

after about an hour and a half

.

He was

flown

with the

rescue helicopter

to a nearby hospital

with

serious injuries

.

According to initial information, the other two truck drivers were uninjured.

All

three lanes had to be completely closed to

record

the accident and land the rescue helicopter

.

Around 3:30 p.m., at least the left lane could be released again.

The

congestion

reached back

15 kilometers

to the Neufahrner Kreuz for a short time

.

A large-scale

diversion

has been set up.

Because all three articulated lorries have to be towed, the police do not expect the accident site to be released before 5 p.m.

Serious accident on the A9: All three lanes are completely closed - at least 150,000 euros in property damage

After

40 liters of engine oil had also

leaked, the

water management office had to be

consulted

because of a possible environmental hazard

.

According to initial estimates

, the

total damage

amounts to at least 150,000 euros, the police continued.

In addition to a large number of the surrounding fire brigades, the THW, the Munich North motorway maintenance facility, the rescue service including helicopters and four strips of the VPI Freising were on site.

First report Wednesday, 3:22 p.m .: Serious rear-end collision on the A9 motorway

Allershausen

- There was a

serious rear-end collision

on the A9 on Wednesday afternoon

.

Three

trucks

are wedged together between the Allershausen and Pfaffenhofen junctions.

A

rescue helicopter

is on site.

An eyewitness reported that several people were injured, at least one driver was trapped and seriously injured.

The THW is on site.

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