Law gladious: Several accidents shake the Rhineland!

On January 5, 2025, numerous traffic accidents occurred in North Rhine-Westphalia on motorways and larger streets, which are due to dangerous smoothness. The police reported about ten accidents in the early morning, especially in the Bergisches Land and in the Rhein-Erft district. On the A46 near Düsseldorf, a car that stands across the road turned, which had to temporarily block the highway. The blocking of the lock is expected for the coming time.

In addition, there were four accidents in South Westphalia and four reports reported in East Westphalia. The railway reports of problems related to Frankfurt Central Station as a result of snowfall and soft disorders, which led to diversions and failures in regional and long-distance transport. However, the railway has not yet announced specific affected lines towards North Rhine-Westphalia.

weather warnings and other incidents

The German Weather Service warned of dangerous smoothness on the streets across Germany. According to a current weather map, almost the entire country is marked yellow, which indicates official warnings of frost and smoothness. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the Autobahn 3 had to be closed in the direction of Cologne between Ransbach-Baumbach and Dierdorf for several hours after a truck could not brake on the snow slatted lane in time and collided with a tractor. In this incident, a total of seven vehicles were badly damaged, three people suffered minor injuries. The blocking of the highway was canceled at four in the morning.

An accident in Nürburg, district of Ahrweiler, is included in other incidents, in which a 19-year-old came into oncoming traffic on Winterglatter on Wednesday afternoon and collided frontally with a 62-year-old, with both men suffered injuries. In Saxony, a regular bus near Großschönau slipped from the road due to black ice, crashed into a tree and landed in the ditch; The driver was unharmed because there were no passengers on board. An accident ended tragically in Zörbig, Saxony-Anhalt, where a 19-year-old came off the road on a district road on Wednesday evening at around 10 p.m. and crashed into a tree; The cause of the accident is unclear. A 46-year-old died in the western Münsterland in North Rhine-Westphalia when his car skidded and collided with the vehicle of a 25-year-old. The 25-year-old was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.