In the Upper Palatinate, there was a bad traffic accident in the district of Regensburg with two fatalities on Saturday. As the police say, a failed overtaking was the trigger.
- A terrible drama occurred in the Upper Palatinate near Neutraubling on Saturday afternoon .
- As the police confirmed, a father and his son were killed in a motorcycle accident.
- The cause of the accident was the current status of investigations into excessive speed .
Neutraubling / Regensburg - A serious traffic accident occurred in the district of Regensburg on Saturday afternoon . A father was on a motorcycle with his son when the driver made a momentous decision on a makeshift bridge over the A3 motorway between the towns of Neutraubling and Barbing.
Upper Palatinate / Neutraubling: Father and son die if the overtaking process fails
With his son as a passenger, the 56-year-old tried to overtake and overlooked an oncoming small truck of the Fiat Ducato type. A head-on collision ensued in which the father died at the scene of the accident. As the Bayerischer Rundfunk explains, his son was taken to the Regensburg University Hospital after the tragic accident, where he has now also succumbed to his serious injuries.
According to police, the scene of the accident is a 30 km / h zone , which the team on the motorcycle has been used to investigate at excessive speed. In addition, witnesses reported that it was a right-hand bend from the perspective of the suspected person causing the accident and that the crashed biker lost control before the collision .
It has been announced that the accident site at Neutraubling has been open to traffic again since 3.30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon . The relatives of the deceased are looked after by a crisis intervention team
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