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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Snow chaos on the A2
Drivers spend the night in traffic jams
Frost and snow cause chaos on the A2. Dozens of trucks get stuck and cause a huge traffic jam. Some road users have to spend the night in their vehicles in freezing cold.
After the snow chaos on the A2 near Bielefeld, the traffic jam has not cleared early in the morning either. Drivers in the middle of the traffic would have to be prepared to spend the night in their cars, a police spokeswoman said. As early as Monday afternoon, the trucks got stuck on the road due to snow. Meanwhile, a 37-kilometer backwater formed that stretched to Lower Saxony. The road was completely closed.
On Tuesday night, the situation slowly eased as traffic was diverted onto an alternate route on the A33. “But it will be a long time before the ball breaks,” the spokeswoman said. The ADAC recommended driving around the area. All rest areas are occupied. According to the police, the situation near Dortmund, where the A2 was also blocked, was a little less dramatic.
Dozens of trucks got stuck on the road in the direction of Oberhausen on Monday afternoon and had to be released by the technical aid organization, police said. All traffic is stuck between the Kamen / Bergkamen exit and the Dortmund motorway junction, and no one can pass. Meanwhile, the backwater was ten kilometers long, according to the situation center.
“We are currently trying to untangle the ball,” a police spokesman said late at night. There were no accidents. The police warned the short message service Twitter not to drive on the A2 in the direction of Oberhausen. The roads are “smooth as a mirror”. The technical assistance organization and the fire brigade took care of the drivers both in the traffic jams and distributed hot drinks.
