In the middle of his journey, a large sugar beet fell on the hood of a 34-year-old in Donauwörth (Donau-Ries district). The driver of the beet truck responsible initially disappeared without a trace, the police said on Thursday. Only the turnip and a visible dent in the car remained. Now the officials are investigating the suspected hit-and-run accident.
The sugar beet team was probably on the way to a nearby sugar factory on Wednesday, said a police spokesman. This is the first accident involving a turnip that he knows of in decades. And that despite the fact that “millions of beets” are transported during the annual sugar beet campaigns.