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B28 in the Reutlingen district: one dead and nine seriously injured in an accident with a test vehicle

2022-08-16T12:34:37.639Z


Four rescue helicopters and 80 firefighters were deployed: a young man died in an accident on the B28 in the Reutlingen district, and several people were seriously injured and taken to the hospital.


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Accident site in Römerstein in Baden-Württemberg

Photo: Simon Adomat / dpa

A test vehicle with modern assistance systems was involved in a serious accident with one dead and nine seriously injured on the B28 in Baden-Württemberg.

Whether the vehicle was driven by the 43-year-old driver or not is the subject of the investigation and is currently unknown, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.

The cause of the accident is said to be unclear.

According to the police, the 43-year-old was driving an autonomous e-test vehicle near Römerstein in the Reutlingen district on Monday afternoon.

In a curve, the car came into the oncoming lane for reasons that are still unclear and grazed an oncoming car there.

The 70-year-old driver then crashed his car head-on into another car.

The car went off the road and immediately caught fire.

In addition, the test car crashed head-on into another car.

The 33-year-old passenger in the car suffered fatal injuries from the violent impact.

Determine traffic police Tübingen and experts

According to the police, there were still two men aged 31 and 47 in the 43-year-old's test car, as well as a 42-year-old and a one-and-a-half-year-old child.

They were, therefore, like other people involved in the accident, seriously injured – and taken to hospitals.

The car manufacturer BMW contradicted the information provided by the police on Tuesday, according to which the accident car was “an autonomous e-test vehicle”.

A spokesman for the Munich group said: "The vehicle has level 2 driver assistance systems, which are already installed in production vehicles and support the driver if desired.

With Level 2 vehicles, the driver is always responsible.«

Only in the case of highly automated vehicles from level 3 onwards can the driver fully delegate driving to the vehicle under certain conditions.

A police spokesman did not comment on this when asked.

The investigation into the accident has taken over the traffic police Tübingen together with an expert.

The rescue service was on site with four rescue helicopters and ten ambulances.

In addition, 80 firefighters with 15 emergency vehicles moved out.

The federal highway 28 was completely blocked for several hours as a result of the accident.

The police estimate the damage to the vehicles involved at around 180,000 euros.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article stated that an autonomous vehicle was involved in the accident.

After a statement from BMW, we changed the wording.

In addition, the gender of the 70-year-old was corrected.

lmd/dpa

Source: spiegel

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