The autobahn was closed for several hours after a serious accident that left three dead and many injured. What exactly happened remained unclear in the early morning.
After the serious accident on Autobahn 14 near Halle with three dead and 19 injured, there is initial information about the course of the accident. As the police announced on Friday morning, a van drove into a car between the Halle-Trotha and Halle Tornau junctions. The car was then thrown away with three occupants and collided with another vehicle and another pickup truck. All three occupants of the car died at the scene of the accident. A total of 14 people were seriously injured and 5 people were slightly injured in the accident.
The SV Fortuna Magdeburg junior football team was also involved in the accident. The association announced this on Facebook in the evening. The team was on the way to a game in Merseburg (Saalekreis). The football players are young people between the ages of 15 and 17. All club members involved were taken to the hospital, it said. Nothing was initially known about the severity of the injuries.
People were trapped in vehicles at the scene of the accident, and debris was scattered across the road. From a car that got into the embankment next to the road, only remnants could be seen. The front of a pickup truck was completely destroyed. Another crashed into a guardrail.
According to the spokeswoman, the three fatally injured were all traveling in a car. The inmates are three people from Saxony. More detailed information could not be given at this point in time because not all relatives of the deceased could be contacted, the police spokesman said. The injured were taken to nearby hospitals. According to initial findings, none of them were in danger of death.
The motorway towards Dresden was completely blocked for hours due to the rescue and recovery work. In the meantime, however, traffic is rolling again, said a spokeswoman for the Ministry of the Interior early Friday morning. According to the police, there was also an accident on the way to the scene of the accident, with three minor injuries. At Riebeckplatz in Halle, a fire engine collided with a car and overturned.
