A 17-year-old was probably run over and fatally injured on Autobahn 8 in Bavaria.
Investigators are looking for a truck, the driver of which is believed to have driven on after the accident without stopping, said a police spokesman on Sunday.
A caller had made the authorities aware of a lifeless person near the Siegsdorf-West junction in the direction of Austria.
It is still unclear why the young person from the Traunstein district was walking on the motorway.
An expert commissioned by the public prosecutor should clarify the course of the accident.
The police asks for the help of witnesses who can provide information about the course of the accident and the fugitive vehicle or other information
(telephone number 08662/66820)
.
The investigators are also looking for the fugitive in neighboring Austria.
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