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By: Florian Dörr
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After an accident at the end of a traffic jam on the A5, any help comes too late for a truck driver.
He dies at the scene of the accident.
Grünberg - Terrible accident on the night of Friday (January 19th) on the A5: Shortly after midnight, a man was killed here, directly in front of the Reinhardshain service area in the Gießen district.
The highway was completely closed for several hours.
What happened?
According to initial information from the Central Hesse police, the background to the fatal accident was the black ice situation that had been troubling road users on several highways in Hesse since Wednesday.
In some cases, traffic jams of up to 30 kilometers formed in northern, eastern and also southern Hesse because trucks in particular were standing sideways on the roads and it was sometimes impossible to move forward for hours.
Route closed after an accident on the A5 near Reinhardshain on a slippery road
According to the police report, before the fatal accident near Grünberg (Giessen district), a 50-year-old driver of a tractor-trailer was traveling on the A5 towards Kassel.
According to previous investigations, he drove almost without braking into a truck waiting at the end of a traffic jam.
The traffic jam was caused by vehicles stranded on the slippery road.
On the A5 in the Gießen district, a traffic jam caused by slippery roads was fatal to a truck driver.
(Symbolic image) © Bernd März/dpa
The force of the impact pushed three other trucks onto each other.
The driver of the vehicle that hit the vehicle was so seriously injured that he died at the scene of the accident.
The 45-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer waiting at the end of the traffic jam also sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital.
There is still a danger on Hessian motorways due to black ice
Overall, property damage amounted to around 500,000 euros.
The highways are still slippery in parts of Hesse.
Nothing works in places, especially on the A5.
This is also the case a little further east of the accident site between Homberg (Ohm) and Alsfeld-West.
By order of Autobahn GmbH, vehicles with a total weight of over 3.5 tonnes are only allowed to use the right lane on several motorways in Hesse due to the difficult weather conditions.
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