A VW Golf caught fire on the A8 near Holzkirchen on Saturday.
Because the extinguishing water iced the road, the motorway had to be closed.
Holzkirchen - A burning VW Golf led to a complete closure of the A8 towards Salzburg on Saturday afternoon shortly before the Holzkirchen junction.
According to their own information, the motorway police received the information about a smoking vehicle around 4.10 p.m.
On site, the officials found that the 23-year-old driver from Heidelberg and his co-driver had already got out of the vehicle to safety.
Both were unharmed.
Full closure on A8: VW Golf catches fire, extinguishing water iced up the road
The Gulf was then completely in flames.
The Weyarn and Holzkirchen fire brigades extinguished the car.
He suffered a total loss of around 3,000 euros.
However, it was not the fire that led to the closure of the motorway, but the temperatures well below freezing point: the water draining from the extinguishing work threatened to freeze.
The police blocked the entire A8 towards Salzburg at short notice.
The Holzkirchen autobahn maintenance facility put the road back into a safe condition for traffic, so that traffic was diverted past the scene of the fire a little later.
Due to the road block, traffic jammed for around two kilometers.
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