Augsburg (dpa / lby) - After a fatal car accident in the parking lot of a furniture store in Augsburg, investigators assume that the driver was not traveling at the appropriate speed. "The speed limit there is 50 and he will not have been traveling at 50 kilometers per hour," said a police spokesman on Thursday. Findings on the cause of the accident should bring an expert report. According to the police, it will take some time until then.

The accident shows how important controls are, especially with regard to speed enforcement, the police said. "Racers have no place on public roads." A police spokesman did not want to confirm that the driver was driving too fast before the accident. Non-adapted speed only means that the driver was too fast to control his car in the situation in question - but not necessarily that the speed was also above the applicable speed limit.

A 21-year-old woman died in the serious car accident in Augsburg at the end of August. The SUV went off the road and crashed through a massive wooden fence, police said. He then crashed into a shopping trolley rack in the furniture store's parking lot. The passenger died at the scene of the accident, three car occupants were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.