Ten accidents, eight injured and more than 200,000 euros in property damage: the onset of winter caused rows of drivers to skid at the weekend.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – Persistent snowfall and ice were fatal to some drivers at the weekend.
Ambulance service, fire brigade and police were called upon several times.
The balance sheet: ten accidents, eight injured and more than 200,000 euros in damage.
Onset of winter in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen: Ten accidents over the weekend
The Wolfratshausen inspection reported the first use on Friday around 7:40 p.m.
According to a press report, a Munich resident (52) left the A95 towards Munich at the Wolfratshausen junction.
At the intersection with the B11, the man from Munich had obviously not adjusted his speed to the road conditions and braked too late.
His car also had summer tires on it.
The 52-year-old slid in a straight line onto the B11 and collided with a 69-year-old Wolfratshauser's car coming from the right and having the right of way.
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With summer tires, a man from Munich had an accident on the B11a on Friday evening.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
The 56-year-old passenger from Munich was trapped in the car and the fire department had to save her.
She came to the Wolfratshauser district clinic with minor injuries.
Both vehicles had to be towed.
According to initial estimates, the damage to property amounts to around 37,000 euros.
Also on Friday evening there was a crash in Geretsried.
In the left turn lane before the B11/Blumenstraße intersection, a Münsinger (42) overlooked a car owned by a Geretsrieder (43) that was stopping in front of him and drove into the rear of it.
The Geretsrieder's vehicle was pushed onto another car, that of a 53-year-old.
The person who caused the accident, the Geretsrieder and his passenger had to go to the hospital with minor injuries.
The police estimate the property damage at 32,000 euros.
At times, the B11 was only passable in one lane.
The fire department directed traffic through the nearby parking lot.
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A rear-end collision on the B11 near Geretsrieder Blumenstraße caused property damage of 32,000 euros.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
Driver crashes into ambulance: 115,000 euros in property damage
Because of the wintry conditions, a 39-year-old and a 62-year-old could no longer prevent a collision in their home town of Dietramszell.
On Saturday around 1 p.m. at the intersection of Rieder Strasse and Ostener Strasse, the former wanted to turn left.
the second came towards him and drove straight ahead.
Damage: 6000 euros.
On the TÖL7 coming from Königsdorf in the direction of Bad Tölz, there was a serious accident around 2 p.m. on Saturday.
A 45-year-old from Seeshaupt drove his VW left into the oncoming lane in a sharp right-hand bend in the Wackersberg municipality.
His VW collided head-on with an ambulance of the BRK, in which fortunately there was no patient, reports the Tölz police.
The driver of the ambulance and his passenger, aged 44 and 54 respectively, suffered minor injuries in the collision.
The VW driver also suffered minor injuries, and his three-year-old son in the car got away with the shock.
The material damage incurred totaled around 115,000 euros, as not only the ambulance itself but also some of the medical equipment in it was severely damaged.
40 minutes later, a 20-year-old from Wolfratshauser in Münsing drove his car off the road to the right when he wanted to drive on the TÖL 17 from Wolfratshausen in the direction of Degerndorf.
His vehicle, a Volvo, spun and crashed into a tree on the driver's side.
The young man had to be freed from his vehicle by the Wolfratshausen and Degerndorf fire brigades and taken to the Wolfratshausen district clinic due to his injuries.
The vehicle was a total loss of around 4000 euros.
Motorists can no longer brake on a snowy road: a blessing in disguise
In a rear-end collision at 2:25 p.m., Geretsried noted a body damage of 8,000 euros.
A Wolfratshauser (35) in a van noticed too late that a Geretsrieder (49) in front of him wanted to turn left into an entrance between B11 and Gelting.
A 21-year-old from Gauting was lucky in misfortune.
His Peugeot van slipped on Saturday around 5:20 p.m. in the roundabout near Geretsried, turned 180 degrees and stopped in the shoulder on the opposite lane.
Only one delineator (about 50 euros) was damaged.
A man from Munich (48) came off the road on Saturday around 7.30 p.m. in Wolfratshausen.
According to the police, he drove his VW from the B11 Tangente onto State Road 2370 in the direction of Beuerberg.
Due to the slippery road, he went too far to the right and ran over a traffic sign and a delineator.
The driver was not injured.
Officials estimate the cost of repairing the VW at 1,000 euros.
21-year-old loses control of the vehicle: BMW touches the telephone pole
The wintry road conditions were also fatal to a 21-year-old from Eurasburger.
The young man was driving his BMW northbound on the Fischbach road around 8:45 p.m. Saturday.
In the district of Thal, he lost control of his vehicle on the sloping road in a left turn and came off the road to the right.
His BMW touched a telephone pole.
The damage is considerable at 12,000 euros.
The 21-year-old escaped unscathed.
In Egling, around 9:15 p.m., a 53-year-old bus driver wanted to turn right from State Road 2070 onto Wolfratshauser Strasse.
Due to the snow he went off the road to the right and damaged a street sign.
Damage to the bus was around 2,000 euros.
Nobody got hurt.
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