Snowing street chaos: five accidents within a few hours!

Snowing street chaos: five accidents within a few hours!

On Wednesday, January 9, 2025, snow and smooth roads in the Edenkoben area caused considerable traffic problems. In total, there were five traffic accidents in which a driver was injured and the property damage is estimated at around 80,000 euros. The weather conditions not only employ the drivers, but also the police and emergency services.

Around 4:45 p.m. a 54-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle near the Edenkoben junction, near the Edenkoben junction and crashed into the middle protection plank. This incident was only the prelude to a chain of accidents caused by the smooth road. At 5:06 p.m., a serious accident occurred on the K6 between Venningen and Altdorf when a 35-year-old woman got on oncoming traffic on the slippery street and collided frontally with a vehicle of a 50-year-old.

accident statistics and injured

The 35-year-old suffered a laceration and pain in the chest in the accident and had to be taken to a hospital. Just a little later, around 7 p.m., a 34-year-old driver came off the street in a left turn near Duttweiler and destroyed three rows of grapevines, which led to an economic total damage to his vehicle.

Another accident on the A65 between the Edenkoben and Neustadt-Süd junctions was the result of the winter road conditions. Here, a 36-year-old driver also lost control of her car due to the snow and collided with the vehicle of a 55-year-old. A rear -end collision on the A65, height of Deidesheim, also injured five people and led to property damage of around 25,000 euros, which underlines the need for intensive traffic safety analysis.

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