Overview
- Cleanup on the A93 between Luhe-Wildenau and Wernberg-Köblitz finished around 6 a.m. Saturday after a lorry overturned and spilled roughly 20 tonnes of frozen salmon, with police estimating €450,000 in damage and no reported injuries among the seven secondary collisions.
- On the A9 near Rabenstein/Fläming, a gas-powered lorry crash kept lanes closed into Saturday as a specialist team prepared to flare escaping gas; two people were lightly injured and traffic was routed over local roads.
- Police in Westpfalz recorded 106 weather-related crashes since Friday afternoon, mostly causing property damage and 11 minor injuries, with blocked routes and a stuck travel bus adding to disruptions.
- Further incidents tied to icy conditions included a serious A10 crash near Mühlenbeck with four injured and difficult extrications, and multiple A9 disruptions in Saxony-Anhalt, including a jackknifed or overturned lorry near Lützen.
- Investigations cite human factors in several cases: suspected alcohol in crashes in Berchtesgaden (over 1.1‰, licence seized) and Blankenburg (2.14‰), plus an 89-year-old allegedly failing to yield in Grettstadt, injuring eight lightly.