Overview
- Police reported roughly 20 ice-related accidents in the Harz district and several additional crashes in Börde on Monday morning.
- At least ten incidents led to injuries, including two drivers who were seriously hurt in separate collisions in Wernigerode and near Ilsenburg.
- Both seriously injured motorists were flown by helicopter to specialist hospitals, and another driver involved was treated for minor injuries.
- In Börde, a car hit a house wall in Niederndodeleben, and a 63-year-old cyclist in Wedringen suffered serious injuries in a fall.
- Further crashes included a slide into another vehicle in Barneberg with only material damage, a car leaving the road and hitting a tree near Wedringen, and a guardrail impact on the B81 by Langenweddingen.