Authorities have acquired the contents from a rooftop storage bin.
On Tuesday evening at 7:30 PM, a roof box containing various items opened on Autobahn 45 in the Langenselbold triangle area, heading towards Aschaffenburg. The top part of the roof box also blew onto the opposite lane towards Gießen, posing a hazard to traffic.
Fortunately, no one was injured during the incident. However, it caused a traffic situation, and during the collection of the cargo, two lanes heading towards Aschaffenburg and one lane heading towards Gießen were temporarily closed. Items such as clothing were scattered across approximately 100 meters on two lanes of the highway.
The South East Hesse Police Headquarters (PPSOH) reported the incident, which was captured in images by the police. The initial report described the contents as a trash bag, but it was later revealed to be the complete contents of a roof box.
The 59-year-old driver from the Lahn-Dill district, who was unable to fit the contents of the roof box back into his vehicle, had to call his son and postpone his planned Croatia vacation. The driver will now face an administrative offense procedure and will likely need to purchase a new roof box.
The incident occurred near the South East Hesse Police Headquarters, which is located at Spessartring 61, 6313071 Offenbach am Main. The Press Office can be contacted at this location, by phone at 069 / 8098 - 1210 (collective number), or via email at [email protected]. Individual contacts within the Press Office are Thomas Leipold (lei) at 0160 / 980 00745, Felix Geis (fg) at 0162 / 201 3806, Claudia Benneckenstein (cb) at 0152 / 066 23109, and Maximilian Edelbluth (me) at 0173 / 5636097. The fax number for the Press Office is 0611 / 32766-5014.
For more information, visit the South East Hesse Police Headquarters website at http://www.polizei.hessen.de/ppsoh. No further details about the images from the incident were provided.
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