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Winter conditions caused some traffic chaos in Germany on Wednesday night.
In the north of Lower Saxony, a section of the motorway was closed due to several black ice accidents, in the south and west there were numerous traffic obstructions due to broken-down vehicles.
At least one person was killed in accidents by morning and several were seriously injured.
In most cases, however, it remained with sheet metal damage and slightly injured, as the police station announced.
The weather should remain wintry on Wednesday even during the day.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, an 18-year-old drove his car into a tree.
According to the police, the young man had probably driven too fast, strayed off the slippery road with his vehicle and crashed into several crash barriers and then into the tree.
He died at the scene of the accident, his passenger was seriously injured.
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In Lower Saxony, Autobahn 27 near Bremen had to be closed for three hours.
There were accidents with cars, vans and trucks during hail showers and black ice in the evening.
Nobody was injured in the accidents.
In Bavaria, a police officer slammed his car into a guardrail
A winter service vehicle came off the lane on a street in northern Saxony.
The car came to rest on the roof.
The 65-year-old driver was taken to hospital seriously injured.
A gritter slipped off the road near Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg.
The force of the accident tore off the large front snow shovel and the linkage of the vehicle.
The driver was unharmed.
A car rolled over near newcomers.
The driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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The Bavarian police also registered a significantly increased number of accidents due to the winter conditions.
A police officer slammed his car into a guardrail because of the slippery road surface.
His car was then hit by another vehicle.
The officer was seriously injured.
In Lower Bavaria alone, the police had to move out more than 100 times by late Tuesday evening - mostly due to sheet metal damage to vehicles "that have come off the road or have not made it up the mountain," it said.
The number of injuries is likely to increase significantly
Slippery roads also caused numerous accidents in Schleswig-Holstein.
In total, it crashed around 50 times between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the police said.
The south of the country was particularly hard hit.
Here the emergency services counted 20 accidents with a total of two seriously injured.
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In the Warendorf district in North Rhine-Westphalia, five people were injured in several ice accidents.
As a rule, the drivers came off the road and injured themselves easily, the police said on Wednesday morning.
A 57-year-old woman rolled over her vehicle in Beckum and was taken to a hospital with an ambulance, slightly injured.
In Bielefeld, a gritter tipped over on a slippery road on Wednesday morning.
The 22-year-old driver was slightly injured.
Broken down vehicles also led to traffic jams and road closures in other parts of Germany.
For example, a truck driver drove too quickly into a curve on a slippery road near Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate - the vehicle turned sideways and the trailer tipped over.
The road was closed for several hours.
According to the police, the number of injuries is likely to increase significantly during the day once all accidents from the night have been recorded.
Even during the day, snow and slippery snow were forecast again for Wednesday in many parts of Germany.