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Horror accident on the B20: four young men die at night trying to overtake - new details about the victims

2020-08-11T10:05:26.316Z


On Monday night a terrible traffic accident occurs in Ascha (Straubing-Bogen district) that costs four lives. Guilt is a failed overtaking maneuver.


On Monday night a terrible traffic accident occurs in Ascha (Straubing-Bogen district) that costs four lives. Guilt is a failed overtaking maneuver.

  • In Ascha, around 45 kilometers from Regensburg *, a serious accident occurred on Monday night.
  • A fully occupied car with four occupants crashed into a pickup truck.
  • All people who sat in the VW Polo lost their lives in the accident.

Update from 4.43 p.m.: The terrible accident on the B20 in the early morning hours of August 10th cost three young men from the Erding district (22, 24, 26) and a young man from Munich (25) their lives due to a failure Overtaking maneuver . As the tz describes, the occupants were on the road leading south from the Czech border near Furth im Wald on Monday at around 1:30 a.m. when the driver of the VW Polo suddenly started an overtaking maneuver in order to pass a truck. At the level of the village of Ascha, there was then a collision with an oncoming transporter, which was controlled by a 22-year-old.

Terrible accident on the B20 - dramatic seconds cost the lives of four young people

According to the report, the driver of the small car tried to cut in again, but brushed against the truck and then skidded. A split second later, the van on the opposite route crashed into the Volkswagen, which was occupied by four men from Afghanistan. The van literally bored into the passenger side of the Polo . Any help came too late for the four young men. The 59-year-old driver of the van was slightly injured in the accident and was taken to a hospital. The driver (22) of the semitrailer was uninjured.

The B20 was closed at the scene of the accident between 1:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. The Red Cross has mobilized additional emergency doctors and rescue workers. Three emergency doctors with six ambulances and one rescue helicopter, as well as the Mitterfels and Steinach fire brigades, were on duty at the scene of the accident, as well as seven fire engines with around 50 emergency services . The BRK Erding's crisis intervention team was also on duty to look after the relatives.

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Four men were killed in an accident in Ascha.

© BRK Straubing-Bogen / dpa

Tragic: Large areas of the B20 between the A92 near Landau / Isar and the Czech border are three lanes , so that you can overtake in one direction . There are two lanes at the point where the accident happened. By order of the public prosecutor's office, an expert was commissioned to prepare an accident analysis report to clarify the cause of the accident and the exact course of the accident .

Horror accident near Straubing: four men die while overtaking

Update from 11.02 a.m.: An attempt to overtake in the wrong place cost four young men their lives. The driver of a car apparently collided with an oncoming van while trying to overtake a tractor-trailer , as a police spokesman said. Three of the four occupants of the car between the ages of 20 and 26 died at the scene of the accident, the fourth occupant a short time later in the hospital.

The Red Cross has mobilized additional emergency doctors and rescue workers : "It was a difficult operation for our full-time and voluntary forces as well as the members of the voluntary fire brigades," said the organizational head of the BRK operation, Jürgen Köhl. The Red Cross had also sent a team with psychologically trained staff to the scene of the accident to look after the helpers.

Failed attempt to overtake: four men die in an accident in Ascha

Update from 9.24 a.m.: Four people were killed in a serious accident in Ascha early Monday morning. According to the initial findings of the police, the four men were heading towards Straubing at around 1.30 a.m. At the level of Ascha, the driver wanted to overtake a truck, but probably overlooked the oncoming van that was heading towards Cham. There was a collision.

Three men died at the scene of the accident , a fourth a little later in the hospital. As Rosenheim24 reports, the rescue workers were on site with a large number. An expert should now clarify how the terrible accident could come about.

Horror accident while overtaking: car crashes into van - four people die

First report from August 10, 8:11 a.m .: Straubing - Four people were killed in a head-on collision in Ascha (Straubing-Bogen district) early Monday morning.

Serious accident in the Straubing-Bogen district: four people die

A car crashed into an oncoming van while attempting to overtake , a police spokesman said. Three of the four people in the car died at the scene of the accident , the fourth a little later in the hospital.

A car collided with a small truck on the B20 near Ascha in the Straubing-Bogen district. According to the police, the car driver wanted to overtake a truck.https: //t.co/1beWNcRRM1

- BR24 (@ BR24) August 10, 2020

The driver of the van was injured, the police said. The B20 was closed at the scene of the accident between 1.30 a.m. and 7 a.m. (kam / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.

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Source: merkur

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