30 emergency services on site
Car crashes into Brandenburg Gate – driver dead
01/16/2023, 02:38 am
A dark vehicle with a notchback drove into Berlin’s landmark shortly before midnight coming from Unter den Linden on Sunday evening. According to police, only the driver was in the car at the time of the accident, and he died.
A car drove into a pillar of the Brandenburg Gate in downtown Berlin. Firefighters found a dead man in the car, a police spokesman said early in the morning. Other people would most likely not have been in the car, one is “relatively sure”. “According to initial findings, no other people were harmed,” the police later said on Twitter.
During the night, investigators secured traces at the scene of the incident on Pariser Platz in the Mitte district. The car – a dark vehicle with a notchback – was reported to have crashed into the capital’s landmark on Sunday evening around 11.30 p.m. coming from the central boulevard Unter den Linden. The badly damaged vehicle came to a standstill wedged between two pillars of the gate.
Black marks and minor chips were visible on the massive pillars. It was initially unclear how fast the vehicle was driving, as was the identity of the driver and the background to the incident. According to the fire department, 30 emergency services were on site. A screen was erected around the car wreck.