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Berlin (dpa) - Winter weather with snow and slipperiness hinders traffic in many areas of Germany.
In Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, the interior ministries reported heavy snowfalls on Tuesday night.
In Hesse in particular, there were several dozen accidents with several seriously injured people on the streets.
The North Hesse police headquarters in Kassel reported 13 weather-related accidents with a total of nine seriously injured by early Tuesday morning.
There were around 25 accidents in the area of responsibility of the South Hesse Presidium around Darmstadt.
A tractor-trailer skid on the B47 near Bensheim and the trailer was torn off.
In Baden-Württemberg too, the weather caused problems on the roads.
Around Pforzheim, for example, the police counted eight accidents due to slipperiness by early Tuesday morning.
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In southern Lower Saxony, several vehicles crashed due to black ice on Autobahn 7: On a sloping stretch between the Drammetal motorway triangle and the Lutterberg junction, it crashed at least three times during the night, as a police spokesman said early Tuesday morning.
The lane to the north was temporarily completely closed, the opposite lane was only passable in one lane.
According to the police, there were no injuries.
The first flakes also fell at night at higher altitudes in Thuringia - for example, the winter sports resort of Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest was wrapped in glittering white.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 201201-99-525566 / 3
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