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Car drives in a group of people: one child dead and two seriously injured
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The person who caused the accident went off the road around a curve and caught a stroller (pictured to the right) in which a two-year-old was sitting.
Quelle: dpa / David Young
A driver crashed into a crowd in Kempen on the Lower Rhine. A 12-year-old boy is killed, his mother and younger brother injured. The reasons for the accident are not yet clear.
In Kempen am Niederrhein (North Rhine-Westphalia) in the Viersen district, a driver collided with a group of pedestrians. A twelve year old boy died. The 30-year-old driver spun off the road with his car on Thursday, police said. The boy’s mother and a 43-year-old pedestrian who was also on the bicycle and the sidewalk were seriously injured. The boy’s two-year-old brother suffered minor injuries.
The driver, a German from Kempen, was slightly injured. According to police, it is still unclear why he left the lane at the right turn around 4.30 pm However, there is currently no evidence that he intentionally entered the group.
According to a police spokesman, the unlit scene of the accident is on a long right-hand bend in a forest. The car skidded across the trail and bike path into a field, where it stopped.
The pram in which the two-year-old was riding was destroyed in the accident, as pictures show. The 43-year-old pedestrian does not belong to the family, according to police.
The accident brings back memories of a similar, but much more tragic accident, about a year ago in Berlin, in which a child and three other bystanders also died. The driver of a pickup truck had rushed uncontrollably toward a group of pedestrians on the sidewalk. The researchers assume that the man had previously suffered a “seizure.” His car had run off the road while crossing the approaching lane, hit a stoplight, and crossed the site fence.
Soon after, a 79-year-old man drove a pickup truck over a sidewalk in Thuringia and then crashed into a garage pillar. His passenger and a pedestrian were killed.
