Bad Dürrenberg (dpa/sa) - After a traffic accident with two fatalities on Wednesday afternoon on Autobahn 9 near Bad Dürrenberg (Saalekreis), the lane is still completely blocked. Since a second accident happened not far from the first accident site between the Bad Dürrenberg and Leipzig-West junctions, the blocking could not be lifted, the police said on Wednesday evening. A detour has been set up.
The two people who died in an accident drove into a truck on Wednesday afternoon in the direction of Berlin with a small van at the end of a traffic jam, it said. The driver and passenger died on the spot. The truck driver was not injured. No further information was initially available on the exact cause of the accident. A short time later, according to the police, there was a rear-end collision north of the first accident site. There was initially no further information about the second accident.
