Saturday, June 12, 2010
Mercedes driver (22) runs over pensioner - dead
Cologne - Worse accident on the way to Burger slate Bilderstöckchen: A sports car driver (22) has hit a pensioner (69). The woman died at the accident scene.
The senior wanted to cross the slate Burger road and stopped to find their bearings on the market. As seen on sight any approaching vehicle was, she wanted to cross the street.
At that moment, the 22-year-old was racing in his black Mercedes SL approached by the Escher Street. Witnesses say he was much too fast. A car driver (46): "With such a high speed I was the black SL is obsolete and then the slate Burger weitergerast way along, until the demolition of sight."
At the level Frankenthaler road the Mercedes smashed into the cyclist, she was thrown onto the roadway. In the 69-year-old suffered her fatal injuries.
The 22-year-old could probably not be stopped or diverted in time. He suffered a shock after the accident and was hospitalized.
The ladies bike and the Mercedes were seized. The woman's husband was cared for by a pastor of the emergency fire brigade.