Two people died in a pile-up involving around 40 vehicles on the motorway near Würzburg. The Bavarian Red Cross said 31 people were injured in the accidents on Sunday afternoon in heavy rain, four of them seriously. There were a total of three accidents in a row.
A police spokeswoman said the motorway in the direction of Nuremberg was completely closed. According to the spokeswoman, a rear-end collision initially occurred around 4 p.m. in which several vehicles were involved. Immediately afterwards, the first subsequent accident occurred about 100 meters away in a backlog. Three vehicles caught fire.
About half an hour later there was another accident in a traffic jam, in which several vehicles were again involved. A large number of police, fire brigade and rescue workers are on site.