The chainsaws have already done a great job in the Fechenheim forest. The route has been cleared, the tree houses are gone. For more than a year, opponents of the Autobahn had prevented clearing here, and with it the expansion of the A 66 near Frankfurt. In the middle of the month, the police cleared the forest. "A bitter defeat," says Alexis Passadakis, one of the organizers of the resistance alliance against the further construction of the Autobahn. "But the...
Four people were fatally injured in accidents on Bavaria's roads. At least 91 accidents occurred on the night of Saturday on snow-covered roads, in which people were slightly injured.A first fatal accident occurred on Friday afternoon at Penzberg (Weilheim-Schongau district). The couple's car collided head-on with a van, police said. The two 71 and 74-year-old inmates reportedly sustained fatal injuries. An eight-year-old child in the couple's car was slightly injured, as were the two people in the van. The exact...
A truck burned out completely on Autobahn 8 near Rohrdorf (Rosenheim district). According to the first findings, a technical defect was the cause of the fire, as the police announced on Thursday. After a loud bang in the engine compartment, the vehicle lost oil, which ignited. When the emergency services arrived, the semi-trailer truck loaded with food was already fully engulfed in flames. The lane in the direction of Salzburg remained closed for four hours early Thursday morning for the...
The Bamberg traffic police pursued a vehicle from the American manufacturer Tesla for a quarter of an hour on Wednesday, which was apparently traveling independently on the A70. According to the police, the 45-year-old driver fell asleep behind the wheel, and the built-in autopilot then steered the car at a constant speed of 110 on the highway.When the police wanted to stop and check the man, his Tesla just kept driving. "He didn't respond to stop signals or repeated horns...
A driver had an accident and died with his family in the car in Upper Bavaria. His wife and two sons were injured in the accident on Autobahn 93 near Oberaudorf (Rosenheim district), the older of the two sons was seriously injured, the police said on Wednesday.Accordingly, the car with the family of four on board had left the road for initially unclear reasons and crashed into several trees. The fire department freed the 44-year-old father from the deformed car....
Status: 12/23/2022 7:23 a.m The Christmas holidays have begun, the festival is just around the corner. Many make their way to their families or on vacation. The ADAC expects a particularly large amount of travel in long traffic jams today. In the afternoon in particular, the roads will reach their capacity limits because travel and commuter traffic come together - at least that's what the experts at the General German Automobile Club (ADAC) expect. An ADAC spokeswoman said there would...
A wrong-way driver caused an accident on Autobahn 38 near Leinefelde in Eichsfeld on Tuesday. A total of three people died. According to the highway police, the wrong-way driver drove onto the highway from a parking lot in the opposite direction of travel around 2 p.m. After three kilometers he collided with an oncoming car near the Eichsfeld parking lot. Both the person who caused the accident and two occupants of the other car died. The autobahn is completely closed...
A man transported 23 people in a six-seater pickup truck on Autobahn 3. The driver and occupants, including 17 children, are all from Ukraine, police said on Monday. Whether it was about refugees initially remained just as unclear as the question of why the vehicle was so overcrowded when it was checked in Ruhstorf an der Rott (Passau district) on Sunday. The police called a tour bus to pick up the occupants. A fine was initiated against the 21-year-old driver...
Throwing snowballs isn't always fun. Especially not if it endangers traffic. That was the case on Sunday afternoon at 2:55 p.m. shortly before the end of the A 8 motorway between Unterhaching and Munich, when previously unknown people threw snowballs from a pedestrian bridge onto the road in the direction of Munich. According to the Holzkirchen motorway police, several vehicles had to avoid the snow projectiles. It cannot be ruled out that vehicles were damaged or that people were even...
The climate activists of the "Last Generation" group started two unannounced actions near Munich on Tuesday morning during rush hour. On the A9, they climbed onto a sign bridge near the arena in Fröttmaning. The police had to stop traffic to get the activists off the bridge. There is currently a backlog as far as Garching. The SZ editors have enriched this article with content from Twitter To protect your privacy, it has not been loaded without your permission. Load...
