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Dortmund / Bielefeld (dpa) - The traffic jam on the A2 near Bielefeld triggered by heavy snowfall did not clear up until early Tuesday morning.
In the icy cold, the driver and passengers spent the whole night, and therefore more than twelve hours, in their stuck vehicles.
As early as Monday afternoon, trucks got stuck on the highway because of the snow.
The backwater meanwhile stretched over 37 kilometers.
The autobahn was closed in both directions - at times more than 70 kilometers of traffic jams formed around Bielefeld.
Despite a diversion via the A33, the situation hardly eased on Tuesday night, as a police spokeswoman said.
"It will be a long time before the ball has broken up," said the spokeswoman.
The ADAC recommended driving around the area extensively.
All rest areas are busy.
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According to the police, the situation near Dortmund, where the A2 was also blocked, was a little less dramatic.
Dozens of trucks got stuck on the road in the direction of Oberhausen on Monday afternoon and had to be freed by the technical relief organization, the police said.
In the meantime, according to the situation center, the backwater was ten kilometers long, but it broke up during the night.
The police registered 340 violations of a truck driving ban - actually vehicles up to 7.5 tons were not allowed to be on the highway until 10 p.m.
The police warned the short message service Twitter against driving on the A2 in the direction of Oberhausen.
The roadways are "smooth as glass".
The technical relief organization and the fire brigade took care of the drivers in both traffic jams and distributed hot drinks.
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