Fatal accident on the A7: rental car crashes under truck – two dead
Created: 04/14/2022Updated: 04/14/2022 06:48
By: Sebastian Peters
Serious accident on the A7 between Kaltenkirchen and Henstedt-Ulzburg.
Two people die in a rear-end collision.
road closed.
Kaltenkirchen – A serious traffic accident in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, April 14, 2022, caused the A7* in the direction of Hamburg* to be closed for hours during the night.
At around 2:00 a.m., an Audi rental car from Miles, occupied by two people, drives into a truck driving in front between the Kaltenkirchen and Henstedt-Ulzburg junctions.
Two dead after an accident on the A7: the car crashes under the truck – the driver and passenger die
Due to the extremely high speed, the driver and the passenger are trapped in the vehicle wreckage.
First responders who immediately try to free the trapped people fail.
Approaching volunteer firefighters have to cut the people out of the vehicle with heavy hydraulic equipment.
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The rental car was completely destroyed in the accident © Florian Sprenger / West Coast News
"Unfortunately, the fire brigade was only able to determine the death of both occupants.
The people were rescued from the car using heavy hydraulic equipment," said the head of operations, Christoph Rüter - Segeberg district fire brigade association.
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Despite a quick rescue, both people died on the spot.
The driver of the truck was shocked.
How exactly the accident could have happened is so far unclear.
According to the police, there are no other witnesses to the accident.
An expert began investigating how the accident happened that night.
The completely destroyed Audi had to be towed away.
Due to the enormous field of debris, the road maintenance department had to clear the entire lane of the A7 between Kaltenkirchen and Henstedt-Ulzburg of debris.
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