Tanclaster accident on A2: Oil chaos ensures weekend closure!

Tanclaster accident on A2: Oil chaos ensures weekend closure!

On Saturday morning there was a serious accident on the A2 near Ziesar, which will paralyze the highway towards Berlin until Wednesday evening. A tanker loaded with over 20,000 liters of olive oil overturned on the road after the driver, apparently due to a health problem, lost awareness. The team talled, grazed the center protection plank and crashed into a pillar of a sign bridge. The trailer tore open and the oil spread over both lanes, so that numerous vehicles drove through the oilache and distributed the oil several kilometers further. The driver was brought to the hospital with minor injuries and the highway remains closed over a length of around 200 meters until the ground can be renewed and the protective planks can be dismantled, reports Stern .

The cleaning work is extremely complicated because the olive oil has penetrated deep into the asphalt. Experts are already on site and check whether excavators are needed to excavate the contaminated ground. So far there have been no reports of environmental damage, but the situation remains tense, while the inspection of the damaged sign bridge is still underway. Drivers are urgently asked to bypass the accident site and use alternative routes via the A14 and A9, such as rnd

traffic chaos and diversions

While the opposite direction to Hanover is already free again, kilometers of traffic jams have formed on the bypass routes. The traffic authorities face the challenge of defusing the situation as quickly as possible. In Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, the summer holidays have started, which also affects traffic and leads to an increase in travelers.

The current situation also raises questions about traffic safety, because such accidents are often due to health problems or technical defects. The collection of such data is important for the development of measures to improve traffic safety. According to Destatis , these statistics are used to analyze the causes of the accident in legislation and traffic education.

For those affected and the responsible authorities, it is to be hoped that the cleaning work will progress quickly in order to be able to release the A2 for traffic again soon. Until then, the driver has to be patient and find alternative ways!