Traffic chaos in Bad Mergentheim: Serious accident on the B19!

Traffic chaos in Bad Mergentheim: Serious accident on the B19!

B19, Einmündung K2877, Bad Mergentheim, 97980, Deutschland - On January 4, 2025, a serious traffic accident was registered on the B19, confluence with K2877, in Bad Mergentheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis. The accident occurred around 2 p.m. and affected several vehicles, including a 71-year-old Toyota driver, a family in the Audi and an Opel. The cause of the accident is due to a travel violation of the Toyota driver.

The 71-year-old Toyota driver was caught in her vehicle and had to be recovered by the fire brigade. She suffered serious injuries and was brought to a clinic with a rescue helicopter. Three occupants in the Audi suffered minor injuries. The road was completely closed until around 3:30 p.m. and there was a property damage of around 70,000 euros.

pursued by the police

In another incident in Heilbronn, a chase occurred on October 14, 2024. The police wanted to control the driver of a Mercedes-AMG, who was registered as stolen. The driver, a Mercedes SL55 V8 AMG, fled and lost control of the vehicle in Paul-Göbel-Straße. He got on the opposite lane and touched two oncoming patrol cars.

The accident led to the driver crashed into several parked cars, whereupon the total damage is estimated at around 100,000 euros. A Fiat was pushed onto a tree by the impact, while an Opel was thrown back several meters. The driver fled on foot after the accident, which is why the police initiated extensive search measures, supported by a helicopter and a rescue dog squadron. However, these searches have been unsuccessful, and the driver has not yet been found, such as echo24 reported.

The crime statistics for the Heilbronn district show that a robbery in apartments was recorded in 2022, but with a clearance rate of 0%. In 2021 there was a robbery, the clearance rate of which was 300%. The traffic accident statistics in Germany for 2022 have a total of 2,406,465 accidents, with 289,672 accidents with personal injury and 2,788 fatalities. If you compare this with previous years, in 2021 there were a total of 2,314,938 accidents in which 258,987 with personal injury and 2,562 fatal accidents were registered, such as news.de reported.

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien