Trucks breaks through the guardrail and collapses head -on with car
On Thursday morning there was a fatal one Accident on the A8 near Teisendorf (Berchtesgadener Land district). This is announced by the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South. A truck broke through the mid -range plank of the highway and got into the traffic of the oncoming lane. After the collision with a car, his 70-year-old driver died at the scene of the accident. The A8 was closed to the evening almost all day long, traffic jams and delays occurred.
Serious accident on the A8 towards Salzburg: 70-year-old dies
The accident occurred around 9.40 a.m. on the A8 between the Neukirchen and Anger junctions. According to initial findings, a 45-year-old drove with a Lithuanian tractor-trailer on the highway towards Salzburg, explains the police. For unexplained reasons, the truck skidded and crashed through the guardrail, which separates the lanes from the opposite lane towards Munich. There the truck collided with a car driving on the left lane.
The 70-year-old driver of the car suffered serious injuries and succumbed to them at the scene of the accident. His passenger was slightly injured. The tractor driver remained intact, whose passenger was also slightly injured. Other people and vehicles were not involved in the accident.
Accident on the A8 near Teisendorf: closure and traffic jam for many hours
The police said damage of around 100,000 euros on the vehicles and the guardrail. The A8 was blocked in both directions until the evening, and derivatives for traffic were set up. The police said: « The full lock must be maintained for several hours for the rescue of the vehicles. » According to the ADAC-Stäumelder and the Bavarian Ministry of Transport Bavaria, the Bavarian Ministry of Transport subsequently formed a traffic jam between the Grabenstätt and Traunstein/Siegsdorf-Ost junction, which in the meantime cost drivers around an hour or more.
The fire brigades Vogling, Teisendorf, Anger, Piding and Neukirchen were on site, as well as the Siegsdorf motorway master. The Traunstein traffic inspection took over the investigation into the cause of the accident and approach.
