"Limits of driving physics": Raser accused of double murder

It was all about the highest possible speed: A young man raced through Brandenburg in a high-powered car belonging to his employer last July.

"Limits of driving physics": Raser accused of double murder

It was all about the highest possible speed: A young man raced through Brandenburg in a high-powered car belonging to his employer last July. At the end of this journey, two people are dead - including a pregnant woman. The public prosecutor's office has now filed charges.

About a year after a fatal traffic accident in Brandenburg, the public prosecutor's office brought charges of double murder against the driver. Two young women died in the accident. The man is now charged with, among other things, two murders, four attempted murders and dangerous bodily harm, as the authority in Neuruppin announced. The young man was 23 years old at the time of the accident and so drunk that the investigators attested him "absolutely unfit to drive". He has been in custody since April.

Last July, his car collided with an oncoming car on the B 96a between Schönfliess and Schildow. In a "high-horsepower car that he had been provided by his employer", he reportedly touched an oncoming car with the exterior mirror of his car in a curve. The occupants of this car were unharmed. According to the public prosecutor's office, he was "about the highest possible speed". He drove through the curve "at the limit of driving physics".

The man finally lost control of his car and crashed into a second car in which four people were sitting, including a 28-year-old pregnant woman. This and a 32-year-old died at the scene of the accident. Two occupants - 31 and 33 years old - were injured. The driver of the accident landed his car in a ditch and fled on foot. At that time, the police announced that he and his 31-year-old passenger had been caught around 800 meters away.

According to the investigators, there is an urgent suspicion that the suspect, through the way he was driving, at least accepted fatal injuries to other road users. The charges now raised also include the charge of illegal motor vehicle racing and unauthorized removal from the scene of the accident.