A gruesome accident on a motorway resulted in an unusual death.
Even a policeman has never seen anything like it.
Toronto - The circumstances are particularly tragic when longtime police officers emphasize this and describe the accident on a freeway with the words: "I've never seen anything like it".
This is what happened in Toronto, Canada.
A 46-year-old died of a terrible circumstance near the metropolis in southeastern Canada.
Motorway accident: "Driver had no chance to react"
Just outside the big city in nearby Hamilton, the bad luck raven was killed by a falling street sign.
“The driver had no chance to react.
That happens within a second, "said Kerry Schmidt from the local police to the news portal CBC.
The street sign was hanging over the tracks when an excavator at a construction site accidentally hit it with its gripper arm.
The construction loosened and the sign hit the car.
The 46-year-old man died at the scene of the accident.
"These were very tragic circumstances," said Schmidt, who, according to his LinkedIn profile, has worked for the police in the state of Ontario for over 20 years.
Fatal collision: #QEW Toronto bound at Nikola Tesla Blvd: An excavator in a construction zone struck an overhead road sign causing it to collapse and fall onto the roadway striking a passing vehicle.
The 46 year driver from Niagara in the car was pronounced dead.
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- OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) April 27, 2021
Highway accident in Toronto is now cleared up
The accident happened around just before 1 a.m.
The photos of the police show the destroyed car as well as the excavator and the broken structure.
Schmidt says of the sign: "The signs are very heavy, robust, but when a large machine hits them, the bracket comes loose".
Two officers have now been assigned to the case.
According to CBC, the company that provided the excavators has not yet commented on the accident.
A tragic incident also occurred in Hesse at the weekend. When a burglar tried to escape from the police, he was hit by a freight train and died. His accomplice, with whom he had previously robbed a bakery, was probably unharmed. (ank)
