A 76-year-old driver died on Sunday evening as a result of a traffic accident near Neustadt (Lower Saxony). His car collided with a wolf and overturned.
- A serious accident occurred on federal highway 6 near Neustadt am Rübenberg on Sunday evening.
- A wolf crashed into a car and the driver and animal died at the scene of the accident.
- Now the police are investigating.
Neustadt am Rübenberg - When a car crashed into a wolf in Lower Saxony late Sunday evening, both the 76-year-old driver and the animal died . As the police in Hanover announced on Monday morning, the accident occurred shortly before 11 p.m. on federal road 6 between the Frielingen and Neustadt-Bordenau junctions.
Serious accident in Neustadt - the driver died at the scene of the accident
After the collision with the wolf, the small car, a Smart, hit a tree and then overturned. The driver was alleging police report thrown from the car and still died at the accident site . Now the officials are investigating how exactly the accident could have happened. According to initial findings, the Burgdorfer had driven towards Hanover around 10:55 p.m. when a wolf suddenly crossed the road.
As a result, the car came off the lane to the right, passed through a strip of green, and crashed into the tree. The force of the impact knocked the man out of the car . According to the police, he was not wearing a seat belt. The car tipped over to the driver's side and came to a standstill. The emergency doctor could only determine the man's death.
The young wolf did not survive the accident on the B6 either
The wolf did not survive the collision either. The animal was apparently a young wolf . This was determined by a wolf representative from the Hanover region, according to the police. Because of the accident report and the cleanup was B6 in the affected area blocked until 2:30 .
However, the devastating accident on Sunday evening is not the only incident in which a wolf was killed in traffic. For example, a dead wolf was found on a motorway north of Erlangen in March last year *. In Bavaria, the authorities had detected more and more wolves in recent years. And in 2017, wolves that had escaped from an outdoor enclosure in the Bavarian Forest National Park * caused a stir.
Another wolf was involved in another incident on a road in Canada. A motorist filmed two bears fighting in the middle of the street. You can only recognize the wolf in the video if you look very closely.
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