Overview
- A wrong-way vehicle entered the A45 at the Wetzlar‑Süd junction and caused a collision that disrupted traffic toward Frankfurt on Tuesday.
- Police say the 77-year-old driver first grazed a truck, continued for about three kilometres and then collided head-on with another car.
- Two men, including the 77-year-old wrong-way driver, were taken to hospital with injuries that police describe as not life-threatening.
- Officers secured the driver's licence at the scene, arranged for both cars to be towed and are investigating the exact number of vehicles involved and the crash's cause.
- Wrong-way incidents on high-speed motorways are rare but especially dangerous, and the crash caused long delays while emergency teams cleared the scene and advised drivers to avoid the area.