Tragic accident in Memmingen: car crashes head-on into truck - woman dies in hospital
Created: 01/03/2022, 4:35 PM
From: Verena Möckl
A 69-year-old woman had a fatal accident in Memmingen.
She was in the lane of an oncoming truck.
The causes are still unclear.
A fatal accident occurred in Memmingen on January 3rd.
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Memmingen - In Memmingen *, a 69-year-old woman died after a collision with a truck.
The accident occurred on Monday (January 3rd) on Fraunhofer Strasse in the direction of Europastrasse.
According to the police, the driver went off the road shortly before the junction with Kiryat Shmona Street and crashed head-on into an oncoming truck.
Fatal traffic accident in Memmingen: woman is trapped in a car
The driver was trapped in her car as a result of the collision.
The woman was only able to be rescued from the vehicle by the volunteer fire brigades in Memmingen and Amendingen.
She was seriously injured and brought to the hospital in Memmingen, where she succumbed to her injuries a short time later.
The truck driver was unharmed.
Cause of the accident unclear: police investigate after fatal collision
How the accident came about is still unclear.
The Memmingen public prosecutor called in an expert to clarify the case.
This should explain the course of the accident.
The total amount of damage is currently estimated at 15,000 euros.
These types of accidents happen again and again.
It was not until New Year's Day that a 32-year-old was killed in a collision with a truck near Bamberg *.
In Rosenheim, a woman was run over by a turning gravel truck last autumn.
She did not survive the accident either.
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