It remains slippery on many roads in Germany. The nationwide frost is leading to noticeable slippery conditions in the north and east and, in some areas, slippery conditions in the west and in the foothills of the Alps. writes the German Weather Service (DWD).
As a result, there were several accidents during the night. On the A1 near Wildeshausen in the Oldenburg district, 13 people were injured in a collision involving five vehicles. The fire department reported extreme ice conditions at the scene of the accident. According to the information, the road was so slippery that even the rescuers had a lot of trouble. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the police counted 15 slippery accidents during the night, and two drivers suffered minor injuries.
The DWD assigned the second highest warning level to a strip of territory from the Dutch-German border via Bremen, Hamburg and Schwerin via Berlin and Potsdam to the German-Polish border. There is therefore an increased risk of slippery conditions due to freezing rain, which is expected to last until the morning. The Katwarn warning system indicated black ice freezing wetness in Berlin there.
In Hamburg and southern Schleswig-Holstein, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians were making little progress in some areas on Friday evening because of the slippery conditions. The Hamburg fire department responded to 87 ice-related operations between 6:30 p.m. and 6 a.m.
For the afternoon, the DWD expects it to be slippery again due to freezing drizzle and freezing wetness from southern Brandenburg to the Erzgebirge and Thuringia. Due to the weather, it is expected to remain partly slippery in the coming days. Snowfall is also possible in northern Germany on Monday and Tuesday.
