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On 14 July 2003, around 6 a.m., a 21-year-old woman was travelling with her two-year-old daughter on the Autobahn 5 from Karlsruhe towards Frankfurt am Main.A short distance before Bruchsal, she lost control of her car, a small Kia, [1] left the road to the right and crashed into trees behind the traffic barrier.
A sandstorm caused an 80-car pileup on Autobahn 19 near Rostock, Germany, in both directions, leading to 10 dead and 74 injured. [73] [74] 15 September 2011: Brazil : 1: 49: 300: Heavy fog led to a collision on Rodovia dos Imigrantes at São Paulo, Brazil, involving around 300 vehicles, leading to several injuries and one person dead. [75]
June 20 – West Germany – Lauffen bus crash. A crowded bus collided with a train on a level crossing in Lauffen am Neckar, killing 45 people. It was the worst bus crash in German history. [21] September 10 – United States – A school bus stalled on railroad tracks in Oakland, Maryland, was hit by a train, killing seven children and ...
Every exit on the German Autobahn and some other expressways has a pre-posted "on-demand" detour route (German: Bedarfsumleitung) marked with a blue and white sign having a number starting with a "U" (short for "Umleitung", German for "detour".) In the event an Autobahn segment must be closed due to a crash, road work, or other incident ...
The Langenbruck bus crash, occurred on 11 February 1985 (), when a double-decker bus carrying up to 40 musicians from the Band of the Royal Air Force Germany (RAFG), crashed on an autobahn between Nuremberg and Munich.
Paninternational Flight 112 took off from Hamburg Airport in Hamburg, West Germany, on a flight to Málaga Airport in Málaga, Spain, with 115 passengers and six crew on board. [1] The captain was Reinhold Hüls, a former military pilot with more than 3,000 hours flying time; co-pilot Elisabeth Friske was the first woman jet pilot in West ...
RUF's 510-hp not-a-911 has no trouble ripping past 150 mph.
The Autobahn (IPA: [ˈaʊtoˌbaːn] ⓘ; German pl. Autobahnen, pronounced [ˈaʊtoˌbaːnən] ⓘ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official term is Bundesautobahn (abbreviated BAB ), which translates as 'federal motorway'.