Monday, December 6th, 2021
Frontal crash after the upgraded route
Five people die on the B253
South of Fritzlar there was a terrible traffic accident in the evening when a car ran into oncoming traffic on a federal road. None of the occupants of the vehicles involved survived. It is possible that at least one of the vehicles was traveling at an inappropriate speed on the wet road.
Large-scale operation on Sunday evening in northern Hesse: five people died in a serious traffic accident near Fritzlar in the Schwalm-Eder district. As the police announced, two cars collided head-on on the federal highway 253 on Sunday evening at around 8.30 p.m. According to the first findings of the police, those killed were five adults – four men and one woman. They were all occupants of the two vehicles and died at the scene of the accident, other vehicles were not involved in the accident.
An expert should now find out the exact course of the accident. According to a police spokesman, after first impressions, excessive speed could have been a reason. According to “Hessischer Rundfunk”, the roadway was wet at the time of the accident. According to the police, the car with the four men between the ages of 27 and 57 was on the B253 coming from Fritzlar in the direction of Bad Wildungen. At the end of an upgraded route and in the Unthanken district of Fritzlar, the car collided with an oncoming car in a right-hand bend in which a 42-year-old woman was sitting. Both cars were therefore thrown into the ditch.
The site of the accident was cordoned off well into the night, and all five victims had to be freed from the completely destroyed wrecks by the fire brigade under erected light masts. The recovery of the wagons was completed at about 0.50 a.m. According to the police, the damage to property is around 45,000 euros. An expert was called in by order of the Kassel public prosecutor’s office. A police spokesman reported that he had already looked at the scene of the accident. A speed limit of 70 kilometers per hour applies at the scene of the accident. One of the reasons for the accident, “said the police spokesman. An expert should now clarify the cause.
It was not until mid-September that Hesse started working serious traffic accident with four dead happened. At Friedberg in the Wetterau district, a car driver was traveling in the wrong direction on Autobahn 5. Four people died in a head-on collision and subsequent accidents, including the wrong-way driver.