Accident in Bavaria: 23-ton truck crashes into the car and pushes it into the house - a four-meter hole in the wall

A tragic accident occurred in Bavaria.

A truck rolled down a hill and pushed a parked car into a house.

Bad Kötzting -

A tragic

accident

occurred

on Friday

in the

Upper Palatinate

.

A 23-ton

truck

, the

organic waste

was charged initially crashed into a parked car and then pushed it into a house.

The accident left a four-meter hole in the wall.

Accident in Bavaria: garbage truck crashes into the house

Because of a technical defect, the driver of the truck had to stop on a mountain in Bad Kötzting on Friday, the police said.

He got out of the car with his co-driver and examined the vehicle's battery.

However, the truck then began to move and roll down the slope.

"The driver wanted to jump into the cab to stop the truck,"

the police continued.

But the 61-year-old didn't succeed.

He was thrown off and suffered slight abrasions in the fall.

Driverless truck pushes parked car into house wall

The garbage truck then rolled almost 100 meters downhill without a driver and initially crashed into a parked car.

But the car could not stop the truck and so it pushed the car into a house.

The car was completely destroyed - a four square meter hole was created in the house wall.

The damage is just under 125,000 euros.

(rjs with dpa)

Also on Friday there was a tragic traffic accident on the A93.

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