Trucks collide on the Autobahn near Leverkusen
Accident on Autobahn 1
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Trucks collide near Leverkusen – three injured
Leverkusen Three people were injured in an accident on Autobahn 1 towards Cologne between Burscheid and Leverkusen, one of them seriously.
In a rear-end collision involving two 40-ton trucks and another truck at the end of a traffic jam on Autobahn 1 between Burscheid and Kreuz Leverkusen, a woman (19) was seriously injured and two men (29, 51) were slightly injured on Wednesday afternoon. A rescue helicopter brought the seriously injured to a clinic.
The trucks lost some of their cargo, including empty glass bottles that broke. The road in the direction of Cologne is only accessible to a limited extent for rescue work and accident recording, the police reported in the afternoon. Traffic is currently being guided past the scene of the accident in one lane.
The accident happened around 1:40 p.m. While two truck drivers suffered minor attacks, the female passenger of the semitrailer (driver: 29) was flown to a hospital with serious facial injuries.