Police reports for Hanover, May 24th, 2022: Neustadt am Rübenberge: 97-year-old pedestrian dies after an accident with a truck
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Neustadt am Rübenberge: 97-year-old pedestrian dies after an accident with a truck
Hanover (ots) –
On Wednesday morning, May 24, 2022, a 34-year-old hit a pedestrian with his truck while reversing. The 97-year-old just crossed the road on the Hermann-Laue-Weg in Mandelsloh. Due to the collision with the truck, the elderly woman experienced life-threatening dangers, which she succumbed to in the evening.
According to the latest findings of the traffic accident service in Hanover, a 41-year-old driver transferred seniors to a day care facility on Hermann-Laue-Weg in the Neustadt district of Mandelsloh. A 34-year-old parked his Iveco truck in front of a property access road on Mayor-Thies-Weg because he wanted to believe there was a construction site there. Since the truck blocked access to the day care center, the 41-year-old parked his van in a parking bay to the right of the truck.
While the 41-year-old driver was helping a second passenger to get out, the 97-year-old went to the rear of the van with a walker at around 8:30 a.m. and stepped on the road.
In the meantime, the 34-year-old sat back in the driver’s cab of the truck and drove backwards a few meters. The rear of the truck catches the elderly woman and her walker behind it. The Neustadterin fell on the road and caused life-threatening conflicts. Immediately alerted rescue workers provided medical assistance after the first responders at the scene of the accident. A rescue helicopter flew the injured to a hospital accompanied by an emergency doctor. The truck driver from Neustadt suffered a shock. Rescue workers treated him too.
The elderly woman died that same evening. Investigations into the exact cause of death are ongoing. /nzj
This report was sent on May 24, 2022, 5:21 a.m. by the Hanover Police Department.
Accident statistics and casualties in road traffic over the last 3 years
In the state Lower Saxony there was a year 2020 of a total of 27,804 road accidents involving personal injury 369 fatalities and 34,974 injured. There has been a slight downward trend in the traffic accidents recorded by the police throughout Germany in recent years. In 2020, a total of 2,245,245 accidents occurred in road traffic Recorded, in contrast, in 2019 2,685,661 cases and in 2018 2,636,468 cases. This trend can also be observed in the number of accidents involving personal injury. In 2020, for example, there were 264,499 accidents involving injuries, and a total of 3,046 people were killed. In 2018, 3,275 fatalities were recorded out of 308,721 accidents involving personal injury.
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