Good evening,


not a good Sunday.

In an accident on Autobahn 5 from Frankfurt to Kassel, four people died at dawn.

For the whole of Sunday it was not completely clear what had happened at 4.40 a.m. between the Friedberg and Ober-Mörlen motorway exits.

A wrong-way driver may have caused the accident in which four vehicles were involved.

It could be the worst car accident in Hessen in years.

The photos are terrible, the debris was spread over several hundred meters, and three people were injured.

The highway was closed for hours.

Maybe there will be more to learn on Monday.

Manfred Koehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and editor-in-chief of the business magazine Metropol.

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The incidence figures are falling slightly.

And both: the new hospitalization incidence, which is based on how many corona patients have to be treated in the hospital, was 2.1 for Hessen on Sunday after 2.6 a week earlier.

And the other incidence number, in which the number of infected people is related to the number of inhabitants, even fell within a week from 105 to 79. But none of this is a reason to be careless.

If the serious accident hadn't overshadowed everything, the bike race with the peculiar name "Eschborn Frankfurt" would have been the event of the weekend in the region. After the traditional date of May 1st was out of the question due to the pandemic, on Sunday 6,000 women and men took to the streets in the Everyman's Race (can it still be called that?), Then the professionals set off. It's nice that something like this is possible again.

In addition, the Rhein-Main-Zeitung is starting a new series with everyday tips, starting with colleague Marie Lisa Kehler, who is able to open a beer bottle with her shoe in a highly original way +++ "Dantons Tod" is now in Darmstadt " without frills ”on stage, as our critic writes +++ Petra Kirchhoff investigates the consumer side of the question of how things stand in the region for refueling electric cars.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours Manfred Köhler

The

weather

for Monday

The day begins with thick clouds and showers.

It'll be friendlier later.

Temperatures between 9 and 19 degrees.

Have

your

birthday

on

Monday

Joachim Unseld

, publisher, chairman of the board of the Frankfurter Literaturhaus, chairman of the book art foundation (68);

Peter Cachola Schmal

, Director of the German Architecture

Museum

, Frankfurt (61);

Katharina Bechler

, art historian, head of the museums department of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens, Bad Homburg (56);

Servet Dag

, managing director of the Vitos Rheingau, Vitos Hochtaunus and Vitos Reha clinics (53).