Serious A6 accident: A police officer died after being hit by a car.
His colleague suffered life-threatening injuries.
Two police officers were hit by a car on the A6 near Amberg.
An officer has since succumbed to his injuries, his colleague is in mortal danger.
In the meantime, the motorway was closed for a long time.
Update from December 9th, 8:17 p.m
.: It was actually a routine operation to which the two police officers were called on Tuesday - but it ended with a tragic accident.
The officers, aged
33
and
50,
were seriously injured, with the younger of the two succumbing to his injuries last night.
First of all there was a
crash
on the
A 6 at
around 4.30 p.m. in the direction of Nuremberg a few hundred meters after the
Amberg-Ost
junction
(Amberg-Sulzbach district).
Two
trucks
and a
car
were involved in the accident.
"Standard, nothing bigger," says Franziska Meinl, press spokeswoman at the
Upper Palatinate police headquarters
.
The two police officers from the Amberg traffic police station went out to record the accident.
Accident on the A6 near Amberg: the car detects two police officers - the cause of the accident is still unclear
The accident happened: the officers were outside their car when a
34-year-old
skid in his Opel Astra at
around 6.30 p.m.
and caught the two.
The
cause of the accident
is still unclear.
“According to initial findings, the driver should have avoided a truck,” reports Meinl.
The truck driver had initially noticed nothing of the accident and drove on towards Nuremberg.
The police finally stopped him at Alfeld.
After the second accident, the operations center received several calls.
Rescue workers
and police
patrols immediately set off
.
The two seriously injured police officers were taken to the
hospital
.
The 33-year-old died in the clinic the day after the accident.
The Opel driver was slightly injured and was also taken to a clinic.
Officials of the Regensburg traffic police were responsible for recording the accident.
It was a stressful mission for her too.
Police chaplains
and representatives of the crisis intervention team came that
night
to look after the emergency services, the relatives and the Opel driver.
An expert report on the course of the accident is drawn up.
The police are looking for
witnesses
.
The property damage amounts to around 16,000 euros.
Captured by car on the motorway: Policeman dies, colleague is still in mortal danger
Update from December 9th, 7:27 p.m .:
A
police officer
caught by a car
during an accident on the
A6 has
succumbed to
his
injuries
.
The 33-year-old officer died in the
hospital
on Wednesday evening
, said the Upper Palatinate police headquarters.
His 50-year-old colleague, who was also hit by the car, is still in
mortal danger
.
Amberg / A6 accident: police officers seriously injured - further background known
Update from December 9, 9.44 a.m.:
In the meantime, several details about the
serious accident
that occurred on Tuesday evening near
Amberg
have become known.
It was around 4:30 p.m. when the first accident to which the officers were called had occurred.
A
truck
was damaged at the Amberg-Ost junction.
It had taken a little longer to record the accident.
The second accident did not occur until 6.30 p.m. at the same point.
Two
police officers
were hit by a car and seriously injured.
Both the driver involved in the accident and the two officers were immediately taken to the hospital.
However, the driver was only slightly injured, said the
Upper Palatinate police headquarters
.
The two
police officers are
still in mortal danger on Wednesday morning.
The
entire
A6 Nuremberg-Pilsen was
closed
from 8:30 p.m. to
record
the
accident
.
The closure lasted in the direction of
Nuremberg
until 0.30 a.m.
Serious accident near Amberg: Police officers are seriously injured when recording an accident on A6
(Initial report) Amberg - Two
police officers
were hit
by a car
during an
accident
on the
A6
and were seriously injured.
On Tuesday afternoon (December 8),
a first accident occurred
near the
Amberg-Ost
junction
, as a police spokesman said on Tuesday evening.
The officers had
come
to the
scene of the accident
and were walking there. In the early evening, the
secondary accident
occurred
in the direction of Nuremberg
. The two men were hit by a car. The details are currently unclear, the spokesman said.
(lks / dpa)
Previously, a car drove into a group of people on Tuesday afternoon in Treuchtlingen, Franconia. The background to the accident is still open.