Status: 12/19/2022 9:30 p.m
While in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there were warnings of black ice until the evening, the situation in the rest of the north eased a little earlier. The emergency services were in constant use. A driver died.
Deep “Franziska” caused mirror-smooth streets in many places in Lower Saxony, especially on Monday morning and morning. The police reported numerous accidents due to the weather conditions. By noon, the control center in the Hanover region registered 136 rescue operations as a result of black ice. Most of the time it was sheet metal damage.
Black ice: A driver dies on the A27
However, a 25-year-old driver died on Autobahn 27 near Walsrode-Hamwiede after losing control of his vehicle on a slippery road, breaking through the guardrail and hitting a tree. According to the police, there were around 100 traffic accidents in the Göttingen area. On Autobahn 7, the driver of a small van suffered life-threatening injuries because, for unknown reasons, he had hit a bus at the end of a traffic jam. According to the Göttingen motorway police, the traffic jam had formed due to the weather.
Buses and trains were also affected by the weather
The smoothness also caused restrictions in local traffic: Until the morning, for example, bus traffic in Salzgitter and Wolfenbüttel had been stopped. Also in Goettingen, Hann. Münden and Holzminden were canceled many buses. Some long-distance trains were delayed because the train said it had to slow down due to the freezing rain and the slippery surface. Current timetable information Deutsche Bahn offers on its website.
Hamburg: Gymnasium as a sighting point for surgical emergencies
Ice accidents were also reported from Hamburg, as reported by NDR 90.3. The emergency services were called to around 240 operations throughout the city on Monday morning and morning. All fire brigade ambulances were in constant use. There was also support from aid organizations such as the Malteser, the Johanniter and the Samaritans as well as from private service providers. The need was so great that fire engines also responded to accidents. A gymnasium was temporarily set up on Budapester Strasse as a central medical screening point for surgical emergencies. However, since the situation eased in the afternoon, the treatment center was dismantled again.
Mirror-smooth streets and broken bones in Schleswig-Holstein
Until the afternoon there were accidents in Schleswig-Holstein due to freezing wet and freezing rain. The clinics in the country reported some injuries, including broken bones. Some vehicles had also slipped into crash barriers on federal roads and motorways during the day. However, school took place in Schleswig-Holstein as usual.
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Many school failures in Lower Saxony
In some parts of Lower Saxony, however, classes were canceled on Monday because the safety of the way to school and student transport could no longer be guaranteed, as the state school authority in Lüneburg announced. Children at general and vocational schools in the city and region of Hanover, the city and district of Oldenburg and the city and district of Cuxhaven, in the cities of Braunschweig, Delmenhorst and Emden and in the districts of Harburg, Ammerland, Cloppenburg, Hameln-Pyrmont, Holzminden, Vechta and Wesermarsch not to class. In the city and district of Göttingen, there were no lessons at primary and secondary schools – but not at vocational schools. In Bremerhaven, school started at the third period.
MV: Danger of black ice also on Tuesday night
The German Weather Service reports that there can still be a risk of black ice due to freezing rain on Tuesday night, especially in Western Pomerania. During the night, only a “hesitant mitigation” can be expected from the west, it is said. The city of Stralsund had closed the Christmas markets in the city center due to the slippery Monday. The clinics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania reported falls in connection with the black ice.
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It’s getting milder in northern Germany
Overall, it is now much milder in northern Germany than in the past few days, because a warm front from an Atlantic low hits the north. Mild, but at the same time humid air can be expected – the temperatures will rise to plus 2 degrees in the east of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and up to 8 degrees in the west of Lower Saxony. Nevertheless, the DWD for the night on Tuesday in Lower Saxony continues to warn of ice due to freezing wet. Storm gusts are currently being warned on the Brocken and on Helgoland. Tomorrow it will remain mostly overcast with values between 6 and 11 degrees, rain or showers are possible in some cases.
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