An accident with a deep-freeze truck on the A8 on Wednesday near Leonberg (Böblingen district) caused disabilities for hours.
A driver came from a still unexplained cause early Wednesday morning with his truck from the road and hit the middle guardrail, as a police spokesman announced.
The 54-year-old driver was slightly injured.
Leonberg - The trailer with frozen food tipped over.
Due to the force of the impact, the left side of the refrigerated trailer broke away, and the load was then completely distributed on the road, as the police said.
The police put the damage to the tractor-trailer at around 120,000 euros.
The police blocked the A8 in the direction of Stuttgart.
In addition, two lanes in the direction of Karlsruhe were initially blocked, later the police released one blocked lane again.
The traffic jammed in the direction of Stuttgart for ten kilometers.
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