Seven dead after a serious car accident: Crash driver without a license – worse suspicion of alcohol

Three cars crashed into each other in Thuringia for reasons that are still unclear, seven people die.

Three other people were seriously injured.

Update from April 3rd, 6:21 a.m .

: On Monday morning, after the serious accident with seven dead in Bad Langensalza in Thuringia, there was initially no new information on the condition of the three seriously injured.

A police spokesman said on Monday morning.

According to information from Sunday, one of the seriously injured was in mortal danger.

Update from April 2nd, 4:41 p.m .

: After the serious accident with seven dead near Bad Langensalza in Thuringia, investigations into the cause of the accident continue.

Now another detail has come to light: The 45-year-old driver who got into oncoming traffic on Saturday afternoon does not have a driver's license, as a police spokeswoman confirmed to Merkur.de from

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It is also checked whether the driver had been drinking alcohol.

The police suspect this, a spokesman told the

.

A blood test was ordered, the result of which is still pending.

In the accident, the 45-year-old driver's BMW collided with a Mercedes and a VW Caddy.

Seven people were fatally injured and three others seriously.

Both oncoming vehicles caught fire and burned out.

The five occupants of the Mercedes, three 19-year-old men and two 19-year-old women, the 60-year-old driver of the VW Caddy and a 44-year-old occupant of the BMW died in the accident.

The 73-year-old passenger in the VW Caddy was able to escape from the burning vehicle, but was seriously injured.

The BMW driver and his 34-year-old passenger were also taken to hospital with serious injuries.

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In a serious accident in Thuringia, seven people were fatally injured.

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Fatal accident shocks Thuringia: seven people die in a collision - apparently five teenagers dead

First report from April 2nd:

Bad Langensalza - It is a traffic drama that has probably never happened before: a traffic accident near Bad Langensalza in Thuringia claims seven lives.

An eighth person is in mortal danger.

An expert is on site on Sunday morning to shed light on the background to the dramatic accident.

A police spokeswoman said on Sunday morning that it was not possible to foresee when the cause or the exact course of the accident would be known.

Deadly drama in Thuringia: car crashes into oncoming traffic - 7 people die in a traffic accident

According to the police, three people were injured in the accident.

One of them is in mortal danger.

The condition of the injured was still unclear on Sunday morning.

No further information was initially given about the identity of the victims.

The accident happened late Saturday afternoon.

The three accident cars crashed into each other with great force in the west of the Free State.

The accident happened in a long curve of the B247, the road has one lane in each direction.

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A burnt-out car and another vehicle involved in an accident at the scene of the accident on the B247 near Bad Langensalza in Thuringia.

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According to initial findings, one of the cars had hit oncoming traffic for an initially unclear reason and crashed into the two oncoming vehicles.

Two of the cars burned out completely.

How violent the collision must have been could be read from the rubble: two of the vehicles were destroyed beyond recognition - one of the charred wrecks lay across the guardrail, the other remained standing on the road with a shredded body.

The third car was overturned on the side of the road.

Fatal accident in Thuringia: fatalities are said to have been only 19 years old

As the

wants to know, five of the seven fatalities are said to have been only 19 years old.

A BMW crashed into the young people's car head-on for reasons that are still unclear.

As the newspaper wants to know, the BMW driver is now being investigated for negligent homicide.

He survived the accident with serious injuries.

However, this was not officially confirmed by Sunday afternoon.

According to police, the bodies could only be recovered after the flames had been extinguished.

At times, residents in the vicinity were asked to keep windows and doors closed because of the toxic clouds of smoke.

Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) was dismayed and wrote on Twitter: "I mourn the dead and feel for the relatives.

So much life wiped out in seconds.

The bewilderment remains.”

Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) thanked the assistants for their work under difficult conditions and spoke of images "that will have an impact for a long time to come".

He was deeply shocked, Maier told the "Bild" newspaper.

"My thoughts are with the seriously injured and the families of the dead."

A train accident occurred in Switzerland on Saturday.

Stormy weather caused two regional trains to derail.

At least 15 people were injured, one seriously.

List of rubrics: © Silvio Dietzel/dpa