A car was torn in two after the collapse at Adelsried. There were three people in it. The A8 motorway was closed for a long time due to salvage work.
Christoph Frey
A serious traffic accident occurred on Monday morning on the A8 motorway Adelsried occurs. As the police announced at 10.45 a.m., were in the direction of travel Munich several vehicles crashed into each other, people were in the Autos trapped. It quickly became clear: deaths are to be expected. A little later it became sad certainty.
Accident on the A8 near Adelsried: Autobahn had to be closed
The helpers must have had terrible pictures, a car was cut in half. The rear part of the car was in the opposite lanes of the motorway (direction Stuttgart) has been hurled.
The rescue work was in full swing, the highway was blocked in both directions until the afternoon. The rescuers tried to shield the accident site with screens, two rescue helicopters had landed at the scene of the accident. It was not until late Monday afternoon that the police released a report of the terrible events.
After that the accident Monday morning, around 10.40 a.m., on the A8 in the direction of Munich, shortly after the Adelsried junction.
According to the police, a 39-year-old driver wanted to drive his silver-colored three-seater BMW from Adelsried onto the motorway in the direction of Munich. He was still skidding on the threading strip and crashed into the central trough of the highway. A VW Passat approaching on the A8 was able to collide with the accident BMW no longer prevent. Due to the collision with the VW Passat, the BMW was torn in two. The impact was so strong that the rear and other vehicle parts of the torn apart BMW were thrown onto the oncoming lane (towards Stuttgart). The VW Passat then collided with another BMW.
Accident at Adelsried: Woman (38) dies at the accident site on the A8
The consequences were fatal: three people from the Augsburg district were in the torn apart BMW at the time of the accident. A 38-year-old inmate died of her serious injuries at the scene of the accident. The 39-year-old driver and a 44-year-old passenger were each taken to the hospitals with a rescue helicopter Ingolstadt and brought Ulm. Both suffered serious injuries.
The 33-year-old driver of the VW Passat from the Dillingen an der Donau district, who was alone in his vehicle at the time of the accident, was injured in an ambulance at the university hospital with serious injuries Augsburg brought.
While the 36-year-old driver of the second BMW was not injured, his 40-year-old passenger from Munich also came to Augsburg University Hospital with serious injuries with an ambulance, the police said.
The highway had to be completely blocked in both directions due to debris lying around. At 1.30 p.m. the A8 was opened again in the direction of Stuttgart. The accident site and thus the A8 in the direction of Munich was passable again around 3:30 p.m.
To clarify the exact course of the accident, the public prosecutor’s office in Augsburg ordered the preparation of an accident analysis report. All three cars involved had to be towed from the scene of the accident. The three cars suffered a total loss. In total, the police estimate the property damage to be around 58,000 euros.
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The highway was blocked in both directions.
Image: Marcus Merk
Speed limit on the A8 has already been decided
Bavaria’s interior minister only had about two weeks ago Joachim Herrmann (CSU) for the sections between Neusäß and Friedberg announced a speed limit of 120 in both directions and at Sulzemoos towards Munich. This should apply from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and should be introduced at the end of June. There had been slight delays now. But the introduction is imminent.
In 2019, the police had registered 938 accidents on the A8 between Zusmarshausen and Adelzhausen, a third of them on a nine-kilometer strip between Neusäß and Friedberg. There were 89 injuries and two deaths there alone.
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Two rescue helicopters were also on site at the scene of the accident.
Image: Marcus Merk
No speed limit planned at the scene of the accident
MPs and mayors from municipalities along the highway had also campaigned for a speed limit. In addition to the high number of serious accidents, the argument was also noise protection. The demands were even more far-reaching than the steps announced by Hermann. For example, a speed limit was required on sections of the route between Neusäß and Günzburg. This area also includes the location of the current serious accident.
At that time, Herrmann saw no need for the more extensive speed limit: “No speed limit can currently be justified on any of the other sections examined because of a particular danger situation.” Motorway management and the police would “keep a very close eye on the further development of the accident,” Herrmann said at the time.
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