A serious car accident has occurred on the A5 near Friedberg.
According to the police, at least four people were killed in the accident in Hesse.
Update from September 19, 4:41 p.m.:
Four people were killed in the serious traffic accident on the A5 in Hesse.
Now the police have made the first details about the victims of the accident public.
Accordingly, a 19-year-old woman, a 19-year-old man and a 33-year-old - all three from Gießen, died in the devastating collision.
The fourth fatality was a 68-year-old man from Frankfurt.
In addition, a man and a woman - also 19 years old and from Gießen, and a 52-year-old man from the Rhein-Taunus district with life-threatening injuries were brought to the hospital. Follow-up accidents had also occurred in the opposite lane due to flying debris. According to the Central Hesse police, an authorized expert is currently investigating the cause of the accident and the accident.
Update from September 19, 2:38 p.m .:
dead, injured and rubble everywhere.
After the tragic accident on the A5 with four dead, the police are looking for the cause.
Shortly before the accident, a wrong-way driver was reported.
A police spokeswoman does not rule out that this is the reason for what is probably the worst car accident in Hesse for years.
"Based on the current state of knowledge, we must assume that it apparently also has something to do with the course of the accident."
Four vehicles were involved in the devastating collision on Sunday at 4.40 a.m. - Photos from the accident site near Friedberg show completely destroyed cars and widespread rubble.
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Four people were killed in the serious accident.
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Fatal accident on the A5 in Hessen - rescuers shaken: "It's a field of rubble"
The rescuers were shocked.
"The vehicles are partially torn apart, and the engine block is on the road," said a police spokeswoman.
"It's a field of rubble." Road maintenance experts had to bind and remove gasoline, diesel, engine oil and coolant.
"There have been significant amounts leaked," said the police in Central Hesse.
The scene of the accident extended over several hundred meters.
Rescue workers towed the vehicles.
The blockage on the A5 northbound between the Friedberg and Ober-Mörlen junction could only be lifted after hours.
The traffic could flow, the backwater dissolved.
The serious accident on Sunday morning is reminiscent of a similar accident in Hessen years ago.
In 2013, five people died on a federal road near Heidenrod on their way to work in the morning.
At the time, investigators named the risky overtaking maneuver by another vehicle as the cause.
Violent accident on the A5 with four dead - wrong-way driver involved?
Update from September 19, 1:20 p.m
.: Four dead - that is the balance of a devastating accident on Sunday morning.
There were also two seriously injured and one slightly injured person (see previous update).
Shortly before the accident in the early morning, a wrong-way driver was reported.
"According to the current state of knowledge, we must assume that he apparently also has to do with the course of the accident," said a police spokeswoman.
It was initially unclear whether the alleged wrong-way driver was among the dead or injured.
For the investigation, an expert will reconstruct the accident, said the police spokeswoman.
Violent accident on the A5 with four dead - the police explain the first details and a suspicion
Update from September 19, 12:37 p.m.:
In a serious accident on the A5 at the Friedberg junction, four people were killed (see first report).
As the police announced in a press release, four cars in the direction of Kassel drove into each other around 4.40 a.m.
Two people came to hospitals with serious, sometimes life-threatening injuries.
Another person was slightly injured.
“A commissioned accident expert should clarify whether a wrong-way driver who was reported recently in this area is involved in the accident.
The accident site, which extends over several hundred meters, is still completely closed to traffic.
It will probably take a few more hours for the road maintenance department to clean the roadway from leaking operating materials, ”it continues.
Violent crash on the A5: At least four deaths - the cause of the accident still unclear
First report from September 19, 11:32 a.m .:
Friedberg - A serious accident has occurred on Autobahn 5 near Friedberg.
According to the police, at least four people died.
Several people were injured, as a police spokesman for Central Hesse said on Sunday.
"The course of the accident has not yet been determined."
Violent accident on the A5 in Hesse: four dead - several injured
The accident occurred between the Friedberg and Butzbach junction.
Several media had previously reported.
Further information follows. (came / dpa)
