Overview
- Police report that gas bottles caught fire at the Rader Hochbrücke replacement-construction site, forcing a full closure of the A7 in both directions near Rendsburg.
- Authorities have not given a reopening time for the A7, and ADAC indicated the fire brigade operation could continue until about 19:00.
- Drivers are urged to follow the signed detours U54 and U57, with current travel times increasing by around three quarters of an hour.
- In a separate incident earlier, a car burned on the B96 at Altefähr near the approach to the Rügenbrücke, and firefighters extinguished the blaze.
- The Rügenbrücke was closed for roughly three hours because extinguishing water froze on the roadway; it has reopened, with police citing a likely technical defect and about €25,000 in damage.