Injured in site visitors accidents – BER airport out of service | EUROtoday

As of: February 5, 2026 9:56 p.m

Icy temperatures are affecting the north and east. In Berlin the airport needed to cease operations within the night. There was a pile-up on the A10 and native transport was stopped in a number of cities.

Low temperatures and rain – in lots of areas of Germany, the winter climate is as soon as once more inflicting restrictions on the roads and tracks – and long-distance vacationers additionally should be ready for restrictions.

The capital metropolis airport BER in Berlin-Schönefeld has quickly stopped operations. Due to lightning ice, take-offs and landings are at present not attainable, an airport spokeswoman advised the dpa information company within the night. “Our surfaces are as smooth as glass. There is a danger to life and limb.”

It continues to be unclear when operations will resume. Initially, the evening ban applies anyway. “We’ll see about it on Friday morning.” The winter climate had already prompted issues at BER throughout the course of the day. Initially, no machines may begin within the morning after freezing rain. De-icing the plane took as much as an hour every time. The first aircraft took off within the late morning earlier than the flights needed to be stopped once more within the night.

Man falls into the ocean and dies

The German Weather Service (DWD) initially warned of elevated dangers from black ice within the west and northwest of Brandenburg. “There is a high risk of slippery conditions due to freezing rain and ice formation,” stated the DWD. Most lately, the DWD consultants downgraded the scenario to a warning of “striking weather”.

Despite freezing temperatures, it’s nonetheless not secure to stroll on ice surfaces in lots of locations. In Berlin, a person collapsed on Lake Halensee and died. A spokesman for the Berlin police advised the dpa information company. Emergency companies had been in a position to rescue the aged man from the water, however he later died of his accidents in hospital.

Accidents in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

A complete of 19 individuals had been injured in a sequence of accidents on the icy Autobahn 10 close to Potsdam. According to the police, a number of automobiles crashed into one another in each instructions between the Nuthetal motorway triangle and the Michendorf junction. The trigger was apparently slipperiness. Three of the injured needed to be handled in hospital.

There had been additionally a number of accidents in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on some very slippery roads. A complete of 4 individuals had been barely injured. Many accidents resulted in sheet steel injury. Vehicles crashed into guardrails, fences or partitions, stated a police spokeswoman.

The DWD had additionally issued extreme climate warnings for components of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. There had been warnings about freezing rain and slippery circumstances, and snowfall was additionally anticipated.

Local transport partially suspended

Experts from the German Weather Service warned that “severe weather-like developments” couldn’t be dominated out for components of Saxony-Anhalt. There are at present no buses operating in Dessau. The Dessau public utility firm introduced that every one routes, together with the evening bus routes, could be discontinued with fast impact. Bus companies had been additionally stopped in components of Brandenburg.

In Deutsche Bahn’s long-distance transport, the climate as soon as once more prompted practice cancellations and delays between Hanover and Berlin. However, the extent was smaller than on Wednesday, stated a railway spokeswoman. Anyone touring on regional trains within the north needed to battle with restricted timetables.