Nine car accidents occurred on the Autobahn 6 near Amberg in the Upper Palatinate because of the slippery road. A total of 20 cars were involved in the accidents over a section of about one kilometer, as a police spokesman said on Thursday evening. Six people were slightly injured and taken to hospitals.
Further information on the individual accidents was not known in the evening. Also on the A93 between Wiesau and Mitterteich, twelve vehicles crashed into each other in two accidents. Three people were slightly injured and taken to hospitals.
In Regensburg a bus drove into parked cars. Three passengers were slightly injured in hospitals, nine parked vehicles were damaged.