Ten dead! Mass crash in a Sandstorm

Rostock - horror accident on the highway 19 in Rostock! In a sandstorm crashed more than 40 vehicles each. Some began to move rapidly, many from burning. After image information, ten people killed, 97 injured.

The mass collision happened at Kavelstorf near Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). Within seconds, the sand had covered the highway. In both directions the cars collided.

Of the injured had been 25-30 admitted because of the severity of their injuries in hospitals. The others were confused with their identity card around his neck, just helpless in the parking bay only a few hundred meters from the accident.

"They are completely shocked, all their belongings, money, luggage are still in the car," said Evelyn Russ Deutschle. She had on the way from work heard by the accident and offered their critical care training to help. "Earlier, a man ran around crying and looking for his family, I do not know if you could help him," said the woman before she is dedicated to an elderly couple who stands trembling and pale, with blankets around their shoulders in front of a rescue tent.

THE SAND STORM TOOK ALL THE VISION

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The horror accident occurred at Kavelstorf, 28 south of Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Photo: AFP

"I've seen this when I'm down from the mountain," says truck drivers Ralf Schulz. "Then, the first has probably slowed down and several cars are back up. Some have turned over. "Schulz came to a halt just yet.A colleague of him but not his gravel truck tipped over and burned.

He now sits at Schulz and his dog Charlie in the cab and can hardly speak. "We still have a woman from a burning car pulled, which was screaming. The other people have run out of their cars and have saved on the median strip, "Schulz says.

The cars are crashing into each other with such force that some are up to 50 meters away from the road on the field. At this point, the highway speed is released. "You see the sand has come, however, might have been slow," says truck drivers Schulz.

May not speculate about highway policeman Norbert Holldorf. For 20 years he sees accidents, many serious on this highway section. "So what I'm here but never seen one knows not even know how many dead we have to do it." His work begins when the vehicles may not be cleared from the road.

In the direction of Rostock, according to police fell 17 cars and three trucks on fire, including a vehicle carrying dangerous goods. In the opposite direction to Berlin 23 cars were involved in the accident.

In the dangerous goods involved in the accident, it should be a tanker truck. That probably came from hydrocarbon.


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