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Road and sea traffic obstructed in Brandenburg
In Brandenburg Brake snow and ice not only cut off street traffic. Spree-Havel Waterways and Navigation Office spokesperson Björn Röske said Tuesday: all the rivers and canals outside of Berlin are now covered by an ice sheet. “This is only cleared with icebreakers if a transport has been registered,” Röske said. At the moment, the Spree and Dahme from the port of Königs Wusterhausen (Dahme-Spreewald district) to Berlin remain free. If the cold weather continues, be the However, maritime traffic will be completely paralyzed. In the coming days, the Spree in urban Berlin will also freeze.
The Potsdam fire brigade warned against the penetration of ice surfaces into lakes, rivers and ponds in the state capital.. The ice sheet is still too thin for walking or even skating. “Even if the ice appears solid near the bank, it may look different a few meters beyond,” said Rainer Schulz, head of the safety department for the Potsdam Fire Department. The different flow rates of the water, the shoals or eddies formed in the waterbed, the incoming sewage and the transport made the carrying capacity of the ice sheet unpredictable.
Snow blowers and plows were used at the BER airport to remove snow from the runway. The planes had to be defrosted.
On slippery roads, most Tuesday mornings numerous accidents. During the night between the Spreeau triangle and the Niederlehme junction on the A10, an articulated truck skidded on a slippery road and came to a side. According to police, another truck had entered the truck. The two vehicles were jammed and blocked all lanes. Traffic was jammed except for the A12. Damage was estimated at around 100,000 euros. No one was injured.
Shortly before Annahütte (Oberspreewald-Lausitz), a driver underestimated the road conditions and lost control of the car, which slid into a ditch. The car could only be pulled out with the help of a towing service.
This lasted until Tuesday morning on the A 24 motorway near Fehrbellin (Ostprignitz-Ruppin district) Recovery of a truck teamwhose driver had obviously lost control of the vehicle due to weather conditions and broke the barrier on the right.
According to the police, a pile of snow stopped a driver in Klasdorf (Teltow-Fläming district) in the morning, who had turned off the road and driven about 150 meters through a field, possibly for health reasons. The man was taken to hospital by rescuers.
On the A9 between the Beelitz and Brück junctions (Potsdam-Mittelmark district), the driver of a semi-trailer was obviously too fast on a slippery road, lost control of the vehicle and crossed the central safety barrier. The rear axle wheels and the tank ripped off, the trailer was stationary in all lanes heading towards Leipzig, police reported. There was a traffic jam of up to eight kilometers in length and other minor secondary accidents.
A van overturned on the A 115 motorway between the Babelsberg and Kleinmachnow (Potsdam-Mittelmark) junctions. The 34-year-old driver had to be taken to hospital by rescuers.
Also because of the cold More and more trams failed in Cottbus. Tram line 1 was switched to bus transportation as an alternative. (lbn)
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