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Numerous accidents, several injuries and a burning SUV: this is the preliminary assessment of chaos in Baden-Württemberg, the causes of which are still unknown.
The suspect is a 48-year-old man. He is said to have caused accidents in the Karlsruhe area on Tuesday night and then fled south on the Autobahn 5. In the Freiburg region he was finally arrested after more accidents, the prosecutor and police announced on Wednesday night from Karlsruhe. The background was still unclear even hours later.
Woman cyclist in hospital
According to prior knowledge, there was a first rear-end collision with a slightly injured person on Tuesday around 6.40pm in Rheinstetten in the Karlsruhe district, it said. The suspect fled with his SUV in the direction of Karlsruhe. There, more accidents and traffic hazards were reported to the police, which are assigned to the man. A 44-year-old cyclist had to be taken to hospital injured. Eventually, the man’s truck flipped over and caught fire.
Driver threatened with knife
The suspect then threatened an uninvolved car driver with a knife, put his car in his possession, thereby causing another accident. According to police, his new escape took him south on the A5.
The fugitive took possession of a truck near Herbolzheim. When approaching the A5 with the truck, it was reported that there was a collision with a car. “This apparently was dragged by the truck a long distance,” he said. The two inmates were injured. At 8:50 pm, the police finally arrested the suspect near Riegel in the Emmendingen district.
The reason the suspect caused the crashes, injured people and stole vehicles was, according to a police spokesman, “still wide open” Wednesday night. The police are currently investigating the details of the individual acts. Investigators are looking for witnesses and other injured parties as there may have been more incidents on the A5 than previously announced. You are asked to report to the Karlsruhe criminal police. In Karlsruhe alone, around 80 police officers were on duty that night.
