Photo: AP The wreckage of a car lies on the A5 highway near Neuried, between Lahr and Offenburg in the Black Forest region, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. German police say six people were killed and five others injured in a traffic accident in foggy weather on a highway in the country's southwest. Local police said in a statement the accident occurred Sunday morning after a car apparently drove in the wrong direction and crashed head-on with a van near the city of Offenburg. They say two more vehicles couldn't break on time and crashed into the others. The six people who were aboard the van and the wrong-way driver's car died on the spot. One person from the other cars suffered serious injuries, four others were slightly injured. The accident occurred close to the French border, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Strasbourg.
BERLIN (AP) — Police say a car driving in the wrong direction on a foggy highway has caused a pileup in Germany that left six people dead and five injured.
Photo: AP The wreckage of a car lies on the A5 highway near Neuried, between Lahr and Offenburg in the Black Forest region, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. German police say six people were killed and five others injured in a traffic accident in foggy weather on a highway in the country’s southwest. Local police said in a statement the accident occurred Sunday morning after a car apparently drove in the wrong direction and crashed head-on with a van near the city of Offenburg. They say two more vehicles couldn’t break on time and crashed into the others. The six people who were aboard the van and the wrong-way driver’s car died on the spot. One person from the other cars suffered serious injuries, four others were slightly injured. The accident occurred close to the French border, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Strasbourg.
Local police said in a statement that the accident in southwest Germany occurred Sunday morning after the car entered the highway against traffic and crashed head-on with a van near the city of Offenburg.
The five people in the van and the 20-year-old driver in the car died. The two other cars involved in the accident also suffered casualties, with one person seriously injured and four slightly hurt. The accident occurred close to the French border, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Strasbourg.
Police did not release the victims’ identities in line with German privacy laws.
