After a fatal fall from the car park roof: the police express their suspicions – residents report observations
Created: 04/19/2022, 11:30 am
By: Martina Lippl
The wreck of a car lies next to a parking garage.
Two young men fell on Easter Sunday in Essen with a car from the top floor of a parking garage and died.
© Markus Gayk/dpa
Two teenagers fell from the top parking deck with a car.
Traces on the parking deck show how the car shot towards the abyss.
Essen – The tragic accident happened on Easter Sunday.
Two young people died after their car fell from a parking deck in Essen (NRW).
Her car - a VW Golf - crashed through a parapet on the top parking deck.
The car fell 15 meters.
The death of the two young men shocked.
There are said to have been regular parties on the parking deck.
Fatal fall from the parking garage – cause of the accident initially unclear
After the fatal fall from the parking garage, there are still many unanswered questions.
It is initially unclear why the Golf broke through the parapet of the car park roof.
The investigations are ongoing.
This was announced by a spokeswoman for the Essen police on Tuesday morning.
Daring driving maneuvers would have probably led to this serious accident, a police spokesman told
Bild
.
In the afternoon, residents would have heard howling engines and squeaking tires again and again.
The two are said to have tried to drift with their Golf.
The attempt ended fatally for the 19-year-old and the 16-year-old.
Fatal fall from parking garage: Accident car is investigated
Officially, it is not yet known who was behind the wheel in the tragic accident.
Whether alcohol or drugs were involved.
The wreck was secured by the police.
It is now being further investigated by forensics experts, said a police spokeswoman on Monday morning.
Fatal fall from the parking garage deck: The traces of the accident of the car with which two young men fell more than 15 meters are marked in yellow.
© David Young/dpa
After falling from the parking garage: two young men dead
The 19-year-old is said to have lived nearby, the 16-year-old in Herne, a good 20 kilometers away.
Relatives had come to the scene of the accident on the evening of the accident.
They were cared for by emergency chaplains.
The parking garage should be a popular meeting place for young people,
reports
waz.de.
A roller shutter actually secures the driveway, but it would have been open for a long time.
It is said that nobody has been interested in the situation there in recent years.
(ml/dpa)
