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Traffic: Trailer enters opposite lane, causing several collisions

From Die Zeit · () German

Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Three people were partly seriously injured in several crashes on a federal road near Roßhaupten in Bavaria’s Ostallgäu district.
  • Police said initial findings indicated that a trailer broke loose from a car and moved into oncoming traffic, where several vehicles struck it.

Three people were injured, some seriously, in several collisions on a federal road in the Allgäu region.

Police said the crashes occurred near Roßhaupten in the Ostallgäu district after a trailer detached from a car and entered the opposite lane. Several vehicles then collided with the trailer.

Investigators were examining the circumstances, while further details about the sequence of events remained unclear.

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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.