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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'. The literal meaning of the word Bundesautobahn is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'.
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.
Paninternational Flight 112 was a BAC One-Eleven operated by German airline Paninternational that crashed in Hamburg on 6 September 1971 while attempting to land on an autobahn following the failure of both engines. The accident killed 22 passengers and crew out of 121 on board.
The total fatalities figures comes from the WHO report (table A2, column point estimate, pp. 264–271) and are often an adjusted number of road traffic fatalities in order to reflect the different reporting and counting methods among the many countries (e.g., "a death after how many days since accident event is still counted as a road fatality?"
Bundesautobahn 2 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 2, short form Autobahn 2, ... was killed in a road accident on Bundesautobahn 2 in November 2009. [1]
On 11 February 1985, a bus carrying members of the Band of the Royal Air Force Germany, crashed on the autobahn south of the town of Ingolstadt, between Nuremberg and Munich. [1] One report described how the bus was engulfed "in a sea of flames", when it crashed into the back of a truck carrying over 9,000 imperial gallons (41,000 litres ...
Bundesautobahn 93 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 93, short form Autobahn 93, abbreviated as BAB 93 or A 93) is an autobahn in Bavaria, ... Accidents On 1 ...
Autobahnpolizei car (Lower Saxony) Autobahnpolizei in 1959, standing beside their Porsche 356 police cars. Autobahnpolizei is the term in Germany for the highway patrol.Heavy traffic and high-speed accidents resulted in the creation of special police units to patrol the expressways known as Autobahnen.