Snow and freezing rain have caused slippery roads and a number of accidents in western Germany. Three accidents involving three people were injured on Autobahn 8 near Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg. Several cars and trucks were involved Thursday morning, police said. The A8 was initially completely blocked in the direction of Karlsruhe.
When the road was extremely slippery, two men with their vehicle left the road in Lastrup near Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony, and the car crashed into a tree. The 21 and 22-year-old occupants were injured in the accident early Thursday morning and taken to a hospital, police said. The police estimate the damage at a total of around 10,000 euros. The German weather service had issued a slippery warning for the north and north-west of Germany.
Slippery roads in NRW too
Freezing rain and snow also made the roads slippery in North Rhine-Westphalia. The police departments reported several black ice-related accidents with body damage. “The gritting services were early in the city and on the highways,” said a spokesman for the police in Münster. “The main roads are currently free, but if the rain gets heavier, we expect the roads to freeze over again.”
And road users should continue to be prepared for slippery roads in many places in Germany. According to the weather service, it can get slippery on Thursday, especially at higher altitudes. On the night of Friday there is a “general risk of ice”.
DWD warning
