According to the initial findings of the police, the car occupied by four men had raced into the service area parking lot on the A46 at significantly too high a speed. Two occupants do not survive the accident.
Two men died in an accident at a service area on Autobahn 46 during the night. The car, which was occupied by four young men, was heading in the direction of Wuppertal-Nord, said a police spokesman. At the Sternenberg-Süd service area, the driver then apparently left the motorway at significantly too high a speed.
His car hit a lane divider and then slammed into two parked trucks. The driver and one of the passengers died at the scene of the accident, the other two occupants were seriously injured. The fire department freed one of them from the wreckage of the car, according to a message.
According to the police spokesman, the two trucks were properly parked on the grounds of the rest area. Their drivers were not in the vehicles at the time of the accident. Further details were not initially known.
