In northern Thuringia, a driver leaves a motorway parking lot in the wrong direction. Three kilometers later it comes to the drama. He crashed his car head-on into an oncoming car. None of those involved survived the accident.
Three people died in a wrong-way driver accident on the A38 near Leinefelde-Worbis in northern Thuringia. One of the cars was going in the wrong direction, said the highway police in Nordhausen. There is no information yet on the identity of the victims. The freeway was closed in both directions after the accident in the afternoon.
The suspected cause of the accident had driven his car on the lane leading to Leipzig in the afternoon, but in the direction of Göttingen. According to initial findings, the man had driven from a parking lot in the wrong direction onto the freeway. According to the information, after three kilometers there was a collision with another car in which, according to the highway police, two people were sitting.
The three occupants of the two cars were killed in the collision. One of the cars was so badly damaged that firefighters had to cut open the car with heavy equipment before the victims could be rescued.
