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Accident site in North Hesse
Photo: Nicole Schippers / dpa
Large-scale operation on Sunday evening in northern Hesse: five people died in a serious traffic accident near Fritzlar in the Schwalm-Eder district.
As the police announced, two cars collided head-on on the federal highway 253 on Sunday evening at around 8.30 p.m.
According to the first findings of the police, the dead were five adults - four men and one woman.
They were all occupants of the two vehicles and died at the scene of the accident, other vehicles were not involved in the accident.
According to a police spokesman, after first impressions, excessive speed could have been a reason.
According to the police, the car with the four men between the ages of 27 and 57 was on the B253 coming from Fritzlar in the direction of Bad Wildungen.
At the end of an upgraded route and in the Unthanken district of Fritzlar, the car then collided with an oncoming car in a right-hand bend.
According to the police, there was a 42-year-old woman in it.
Both cars were thrown into the ditch.
The site of the accident was cordoned off well into the night, and all five victims had to be freed from the wrecks by the fire brigade under erected light masts.
The recovery of the wagons was completed at around 0.50 a.m.
Expert should determine the cause of the accident
An expert was called in by order of the Kassel public prosecutor's office.
According to the information, a speed limit of 70 kilometers per hour applies at the scene of the accident.
It was not until mid-September that a serious traffic accident occurred in Hesse with four deaths.
At Friedberg in the Wetterau district, a car driver was traveling in the wrong direction on Autobahn 5.
At high speed, there was a head-on collision with an oncoming car with four young occupants.
Two of them died and the other two were seriously injured.
jok / dpa