"Köln 50667" actor Ingo Kantorek: Death remains a mystery

The accidental death of actor Ingo Kantorek and his wife remains unclear. Three months after the crash, an appraiser no longer assumes a defect as a cause: technical failure or a malfunction of the car could be "highly likely" excluded, said police and prosecutors.

The exact circumstances of the accident would probably no longer be cleared up, it is said in the statement of the investigators: "Which situation had preceded the impact, will no longer be understood." The couple was on their way home from vacation when it fatally crashed.

Susana Kantorek was at the wheel when the car came off the road at night when entering the parking lot, hit a concrete crash barrier and then collided with the semitrailer of a parked semitrailer. According to the investigations, the car crashed onto the semi-trailer at a speed of at least 100 kilometers per hour.

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Misfortune near Sindelfingen: "No one left to tell us"

In the accident on the A8 near Sindelfingen the 44-year-old actor and his four-year-old wife had died, they were the only occupants of the car. The 60-year-old truck driver, who slept in his cabin at the time of the accident, was slightly injured.

"There is only one human cause left as a reason for the accident," said Ludwigsburg police spokesman Peter Widenhorn. The two dead, however, had not been autopsied. Therefore, a case of illness as well as, for example, a microsleep or a case of weakness come into consideration. "There is no one left who we can ask and who can tell us."

According to the broadcaster RTL II, Kantorek and his wife just returned from vacation. According to the police, the actor died at the scene of the accident, so his wife succumbed to her injuries a little later in the hospital. Kantorek played in the reality soap "Cologne 50667" the main role of the biker Alex Kowalski.