Fatal accident on the A7: 19-year-old with Audi dies in collision

Fatal accident on the A7: 19-year-old with Audi dies in collision

A tragic incident occurred early Saturday morning on the A7 near Seesen in the Goslar district. A 19-year-old driver died from Northeim. The young man drove his Audi A6 towards Göttingen when there was a serious accident around 2.43 a.m.

The accident was caused by a maneuver known as the "elephant race", in which a tractor -trailer tried to overtake a slower truck in the right lane. The Audi driver recognized this danger too late. The result was devastating: the Audi collided with the trailer of the truck at high speed. In the case of impact, the rear axis of the trailer was heavily deformed.

dramatic course of the accident

The impact was so violent that the front of the Audi wedged the trailer, and the action led to the wreck of the vehicle was still looped about 300 meters behind the tractor. For the young driver, who apparently had no way to react in time, all help came too late. He died at the scene of the accident.

As a result of the accident, the emergency services and fire brigade had to carry out extensive rescue work that took several hours and led to the closure of the A7. Another truck was damaged by flying debris, which still tightened the situation.

This tragic incident illustrates the dangers that lurk on the highways, especially in connection with large vehicles and risky overtaking maneuvers. www.bild.de reports , it must now be examined whether the tractor -trailer has been properly switched to the overtaking lane or whether there were other technical defects that could have led to this tragic incident.