Overturned candy truck spills fuel, disrupts A9 motorway traffic for hours
A9 Near Bad Lobenstein (our platform)
Just before the Bavarian state border on the A9 motorway toward Munich, a semi-trailer truck overturned onto its side beside the highway early this morning at around 2:30 a.m. According to initial findings, the 60-year-old driver veered off the road to the right for unknown reasons, plowed through an embankment in the adjacent roadside ditch, and tipped over roughly 100 meters further on. The driver sustained minor injuries. The truck was carrying nearly 20 tons of confectionery.
A crane was required to recover the vehicle. Fuel also leaked from the tractor unit, and environmental authorities are assessing whether this caused any ecological damage.
Firefighters pumped the remaining fuel out of the tractor unit.
Preliminary estimates place the total property damage at €95,000. Recovery operations continued until 9:00 a.m. this morning.
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