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Noise protection wall dissolves on A3 near Cologne-Dellbrück: driver dies immediately
It’s sheer horror: a five-ton noise barrier breaks off and crashes into Autobahn 3 near Cologne. At the exact moment a woman passes by in her VW Polo. The concrete slab buries the woman’s small car (66): it dies instantly! Eyewitnesses and first responders are in shock! How did the tragedy arise? In the video you can see the deployment of the fire department. An ADAC expert also explains why the accident should never have happened. It demands that the cause of the accident be quickly clarified.
Autobahn 3 fire and police block near Cologne-Dellbrück
The accident occurred on Friday around 10.15am on the busy A3 near Cologne-Dellbrück (direction Frankfurt to Oberhausen). The photo shows that the Cologne driver had no chance of survival. The driver of the car simply killed the concrete slab. In the afternoon, the A3 was partially released again, but the right-hand lanes along the noise barriers remained closed in both directions, for a length of 2 kilometers. “This is necessary due to the examination of the acoustic barriers,” said a spokesman for the state agency “Straßen NRW”. The walls were from around 2007 so they weren’t that old. It is not yet known how the accident could have occurred.
Verkehrsbetrieb “Straßen NRW” emphasizes: The walls are regularly checked anyway
“Our noise barriers, of course, are checked as part of visual inspection by the master craftsmen,” the spokesperson said. That happens regardless of the tragic accident on Friday. “Make sure we look at it again now.” No one should worry about driving on the freeway at this time because the right lanes are blocked. After this terrible accident, the 66-year-old driver’s stunned family is left behind. At the moment no one can explain to you how this tragedy happened.
Only in North Rhine-Westphalia: noise barriers of more than 1,000 kilometers
There are noise barriers on almost all highways in Germany; In North Rhine-Westphalia alone there are noise barriers of the most varied constructions on about 1000 kilometers of federal highways and highways. How dangerous are they? This will be addressed in the next week by the state government in the transportation committee of the state parliament in a current quarter of an hour.
