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Updated Nov. 21, 2020, 10:28 p.m.
A sporty off-road vehicle drives off the street in Frankfurt and crashes into the wall of a house. With devastating consequences. Memories of a particularly serious accident in Berlin last year are awakened.
In a fatal collision in Frankfurt / Main, an SUV struck several people on a sidewalk. Two of them died of their injuries, a police spokesman said Saturday night. According to police, two pedestrians and a bicycle messenger were hit by the car in the afternoon traffic accident.
According to the police, the car left the street around 4 pm in Frankfurt’s Ostend district, not far from the European Central Bank (ECB), and crashed into the wall of a house. Three people were seriously injured on the sidewalk. They were taken to hospitals, where a 62-year-old pedestrian from the Ostalb district of Baden-Württemberg and a younger bicycle messenger died. The third victim is a woman. A parked car was damaged. The “Hessenschau” had previously reported on the fatal accident.
Memories of serious SUV accidents in Berlin are awakened
According to the police, the identity of the driver was initially unknown. It was also unclear how many occupants were in the car at the time of the accident. The middle-aged driver was not seriously injured, according to police. They took him to a police station to clarify his personal data and record his testimony. It is determined against him, for example, if he drove too fast. According to a police spokesman, there was initially no evidence of alcohol or other drugs. “But we are still at the beginning of the investigation,” he emphasized. The police asked for evidence.
After a similar accident in Berlin last year, a debate broke out about the dangers of heavy sports vehicles (SUVs). At that moment, the vehicle ran off the road in the center of the German capital, fatally injuring four pedestrians, including a three-year-old boy. SUVs have become increasingly popular with car buyers, although critics have cited them as particularly polluting. After the serious accident in Berlin in 2019, voices had also been raised to introduce maximum limits for large SUVs in city centers. (mt / dpa)
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