Hohenbrunn (dpa / lby) - A pile-up with four articulated lorries and a truck on the Munich ring road 99 near Hohenbrunn paralyzed traffic there on Wednesday afternoon. The 39-year-old driver of the truck was trapped and taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said. The freeway was closed for hours in the northbound direction.
According to the police, a semi-trailer truck first drove into the middle lane in the construction site area around noon and then switched to the right lane. The 61-year-old driver cut in just in front of another articulated lorry, so that the driver could not brake in time and drove up. The 39-year-old driving behind him was also unable to brake his 15-ton truck and drove up, as did the articulated lorry behind him. This pushed the truck further onto the front articulated lorry. Behind it, a fourth semitrailer crashed into the scene of the accident.
The road was still closed in the early evening. Police expected a release around 8 p.m. The rescue continues. Cooking fat that one of the vehicles had loaded also leaked out. "The road is totally greasy," said a police spokesman. The fat is difficult to get rid of. There are two causes of the accident: the first semi-trailer truck changing lanes too closely and the distance between the vehicles being too small.
