A vacationer from Saxony-Anhalt had a fatal accident while trying to stop his mobile home.
Now is determined.
A tragic accident occurred on the Baltic island of Rügen.
A vacationer was run over by his own mobile home.
The man from Saxony-Anhalt tried to stop the vehicle.
Rügen - A tragic accident has now occurred on the
Baltic island of Rügen
.
A
vacationer
from
Saxony-Anhalt was run
over
by his own
mobile home
in an
accident
and was fatally injured.
He had previously tried to stop the rolling camper himself.
Rügen: vacationer dies in a tragic accident - he was run over by his mobile home
As a
police spokesman
explained on Friday, the 57-year-old man from
Magdeburg
stopped
his vehicle on
Thursday evening
at the entrance barrier to a
campsite near Göhren
and got out.
The vacationer from
Saxony-Anhalt
apparently forgot to put on the handbrake.
Shortly afterwards, the motorhome rolled backwards down the site.
The man then ran to his mobile home and tried to put the handbrake on.
According to the police spokesman, he should have slipped and been run over by his own vehicle.
Rügen: Magdeburg dies after a serious accident - investigations are ongoing
With life-threatening injuries, the man was immediately
flown in
a
rescue helicopter
to a clinic in
Greifswald
, where the vacationer died shortly afterwards from his serious injuries.
The man had been out with his wife, who was unharmed.
The
investigation was
still ongoing.
Göhren is located in the southeast of the island of Rügen on the Mönchgut peninsula.
A similar accident occurred in Karlsruhe in July.
A camper slipped into the water during the night, a 22-year-old woman who was in the car died.
At an Italian campsite in August, a tree crashed onto a tent in which two sisters were sleeping.
Both children died.
