Snowy roads and inappropriate speed were the most common causes of the numerous accidents in Bavaria.
The emergency services were on duty on Tuesday night.
A novice driver dies after a head-on collision near Weiden in the Upper Palatinate.
Sometimes nothing worked on the A8 and A93.
There were many smaller accidents with sheet metal damage in Munich *.
Munich
- In large parts of Bavaria, the massive
snowfalls of
the past 24 hours have led to sometimes catastrophic road conditions.
And it should keep snowing for the next few days.
There were particularly frequent crashes in the state capital itself. The
Munich * police
reported
165 accidents
from Monday evening to Tuesday morning
.
Few people were injured in the process.
It often remained with sheet metal damage.
The
fire department *
sometimes had to take care of broken buses and trams.
Weather chaos in Bavaria: tragic accident on the B22
A particularly tragic accident occurred on Monday evening.
Two cars collided on the B22
near
Weiden in the Upper Palatinate
.
The 18-year-old driver of a VW Golf was trapped in his car.
Only the
fire brigade was
able to free him with heavy equipment, writes
nordbayern.de
.
The novice driver was injured so seriously in the accident that he died at the
scene of
the
accident
.
The driver of the other car, a 44-year-old in a Seat Ibiza, was also seriously injured.
She was immediately taken to
Weiden
Hospital.
An expert now has to determine how the accident happened.
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A particularly tragic accident occurred near Weiden in the Upper Palatinate.
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On the
A8 in the direction of Salzburg
nothing worked for a long time on Monday evening.
There were massive traffic delays between the Rohrdorf and Frasdorf junctions, reports the
Rosenheim police
.
The backwater reached almost ten kilometers.
The reason was the smooth road surface due to the heavy snowfall *.
Several trucks stood sideways and needed support from the motorway maintenance authority.
The
entire motorway was closed for
two hours
.
The congestion only cleared around 11 p.m.
Weather chaos in Bavaria: tank truck overturns on the A93
On Tuesday morning, it was also jammed on the
A93
at the height of the triangle Saalhaupt.
A tanker truck driver lost control of his vehicle and fell over on his right side.
Fortunately, the truck had not
loaded
any
dangerous
goods, just a mixture of glue, writes the
Donaukurier
.
Nevertheless, the
motorway had
to be closed on both lanes for recovery.
Although the
accident
occurred at 8:30 a.m., the clean-up work is still ongoing.
However, the lane towards Munich should soon be released again.
The driver of the
tanker
was uninjured.
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A dangerous goods truck overturned on the A93 at Dreieck Saalhaupt.
The motorway then had to be closed.
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In
Perach
,
Upper Bavaria
, a car landed nose-first in an overflow ditch.
At around 7.10 p.m. the driver of the car suddenly had to
brake in
front of a
level crossing
.
The car slipped on the slippery road surface and landed in the ditch.
The two inmates then had to be freed from their car by the emergency services, writes the
Perach fire brigade
on their Facebook profile.
You were unharmed.
Only a truck crane could then pull the car back onto the road.
In Weyarn in the Miesbach district, a truck slipped off the road and landed in a field on its side *.
Weather chaos in Bavaria: In Plößberg, an Audi hits a tree
Also on Monday evening, a man between
Plößberg
and
Floß
(Tirschenreuth district) lost control of his Audi A5 and hit a tree head-on.
At around 7 p.m. he took a slight left turn off the road.
The
rescue workers
brought the driver with moderate injuries to the nearby clinic, reports
onetz.de
.
The
fire brigade
then had to clean the scene of the accident.
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On the state road near Plößberg, an Audi came off the lane and hit a tree head-on.
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Also on Monday evening,
a fatal accident
occurred on the
A95
in
the Weilheim-Schongau district
.
A car hit a crash barrier and was thrown 25 meters through the air by the force of the impact *.
The 23-year-old driver and his 20-year-old passenger died at the scene of the accident.
However, it is still unclear whether the
accident was
related to the
blowing snow
and the
slippery road conditions
.
In total, the
Upper Bavaria South police
registered
almost 70 accidents, according to a spokeswoman for the presidium.
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