Police ticker for Ulm, July 12, 2022: (HDH) Giengen/A7 – tire burst / On Monday, a truck overturned on the A7 near Giengen.

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(HDH) Giengen/A7 – tire burst / On Monday a truck overturned on the A7 near Giengen.

Ulm (ots) –

At around 3 p.m., a 51-year-old was driving her Mitsubishi truck on the A7 from Ulm in the direction of Würzburg. The woman was driving in the right lane. The rear left tire on the Mitsubishi burst at about the height of Giengen. The truck swerved, overturned and skidded about 100 meters across the road. The vehicle came to rest in the right lane. In which accident The 51-year-old suffered minor injuries. She was treated medically by paramedics. The load, several slabs of granite, was distributed over the entire roadway. The police are now investigating the exact course of the accident. While the accident was being recorded, traffic was initially blocked completely and then routed past the scene of the accident. There was a traffic jam of several kilometers. Tow trucks recovered the truck. The highway maintenance department and the police cleaned the road.

Notes: A tire on the vehicle can burst for any road user. You should therefore deal with it mentally. The following steps can make it possible to master such a situation as safely as possible:

• Switch on the hazard warning lights to alert other road users to the dangerous situation.
• Hold your steering wheel firmly in both hands. Slowly slow down and carefully countersteer.
• Also blink on the right. Head for the hard shoulder or a parking bay. Turn off the engine of your vehicle there and turn on the headlights.
• Get out of the vehicle, but don’t forget to put on a safety vest.
• Secure the danger point by setting up a warning triangle.
• Depending on the situation, decide for yourself whether you want to change the tire yourself or call a breakdown service. Please don’t put yourself in danger.

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Andrea Wagner, Tel. 0731/188-1111

This report was sent by the police headquarters in Ulm on July 12, 2022 at 7:17 a.m.

Accident statistics and casualties in road traffic over the last 3 years

In the state Baden-Wuerttemberg there was a year 2020 of a total of 32,204 road accidents involving personal injury 330 fatalities and 39,620 injured. There has been a slight downward trend in the traffic accidents recorded by the police throughout Germany in recent years. In 2020, a total of 2,245,245 accidents occurred in road traffic 2,685,661 cases in 2019 and 2,636,468 cases in 2018. This trend can also be observed in the number of accidents involving personal injury. In 2020, for example, there were 264,499 accidents in which people were injured, and a total of 3,046 people were killed. In 2018, 3,275 fatalities were recorded out of 308,721 accidents involving personal injury.

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