Was that the wreck near the Kassel Driecke, think it started when a car drove into a milk tanker in thick fog ?
No. It was on the A92 just north of Landshut (I had gotten on at Essenbach and I think the next exit, where it happened, was Landshut Nord or something exit). A large truck had just gotten on the Autobahn at that exit and a car just rammed it from behind. It was wedged under the truck up to the windshield. The driver was pretty bloodied but was alive. The rest f the accident was just idiots who rammed the parked people who were stopped for the accident from behind. I had just gotten on the onramp before and had pulled off the road to clear ice from my side mirror and had gotten back on and accelerated quickly to avoid getting rammed from behind when I noticed blinking lights ahead. I started to slow down as it is common for slow moving traffic on the highway to put on their blinkers there. Then I noticed they were stopped and not just slow and had to slam on my brakes. I slid into the between lane on the line area and barely bumped the corner of the car in front of me as I cam to a stop. She was a British lady who worked at the airport and was in the right lane. I was in between lanes and my passenger corner (LH drive cars) like US and continental) barely bumped her rear left light and probably broke it and a minor dent. I pulled into the left lane, as I had slid between lanes, and got out of my car. Someone else parked behind me and then an idiot businessman slammed into him, and pushed him into me, who pushed me into a small car that I was parked behind, which got pushed into a small trailer being pulled by a car. (Garden trailer or something).
I was out of the car by then (amazing I was not smashed or anything standing on the side of the road on the fast overtaking lane side).
I got a ticket and summons in the mail a few weeks later -- basically a "driving too fast for the conditions" and "driving to endanger". I had lawyer insurance, like all Good Germans™ and went to court. It was a combined case with a few others involved. I had some witnesses who had seen me on the side of the road clearing ice (ie, I couldn't have been driving very fast as I had just gotten back on a km before), and also that I had gotten out of the parked car behind the guy and my car was pushed into the guy in front.
In the court, which was not as elaborate as you see British courts on TV -- no wigs etc -- but the lawyers all had their choir robes to put on in the court room, the state's case unravelled after several of the other charged got up and explained what had happened, and after I had explained what had happened, and we all basically agreed, in the major points, and then the main cop who got up admitted they didn't really know what had happened and had pieced together things based on the over head photos of the accident after the fact.
I was tagged as driving to fast and driving to endanger based on the fact I was in the fast/overtaking lane at the end, though I had actually been in the slow lane until it happened and then just moved over to park.
Judge dismissed everyones' case --we had to pay our own costs -- but the case and fines were dismissed.
the actual fine was less than my lawyer insurance deductible by about $15-$20 but I did not have any point son my license.
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