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In 2008 this bad crash http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/deutschland/vier-tote-schwerer-unfall-auf-der-a31-bid-1.1944282 happened just a few seconds after I've passed the place in the other direction. Or it happened, when I'd been just there, no idea.
I must say, that I never felt any mercy with the four dead and two badly injured guys. It was totally their fault.
In the Audi were six(!) young guys, all Bundeswehr-soldiers, none of them was buckled up. It was still dark at half past five in the morning, but it was clear and dry and this Autobahn has not any curves or hills at all.
Shortly before a Polish Van had a rather light accident with a truck, which transported cooking oil. The damaged Van stood on the left lane, behind it a car with hazard lights on, the slightly damaged truck stood on the breakdown line.
Since the beginning of the Autobahn A31 the Audi drove with 200 km/h and more on the left lane. When the driver saw the accident, he tried to pass it via the breakdown lane. But there stood the truck. So the morons smashed into it.
Some month later I've witnessed a crash at the entry of our village. I've followed on the country road a Golf II, which went on the left turning lane. It indicated, stopped - and then drove on, despite the oncoming traffic, which I could even see from 200 meters behind! I thought "Hmm, this looks not really good", and in this moment the Golf smashed frontal into an oncoming Golf IV. Noone was injured, but boths Golfs were totaled.
My wife (btw., she is busy with car accidents the whole day. It's her profession in the claim settlement of an insurance. I'm in that business, too, but not for car accidents) once spotted a crash, which made all people around, incl. her really happy
When she entered the Autobahn 44 right besides the Düsseldorf Airport, there was an annoying asshole-driver in a VW Phaeton, whoc drove like a shithead. He entered the Autobahn via the breakdown lane, tried to overtake all other cars on the right side (forbidden in Germany), shoved the others, used the flash lights and so on. As of course he never hold an appropiate distance, he couldn't see, what happened before. Once, after he jerkily went behind a Van from the middle to the left lane (of course too narrow to the following car) he smashed fully into the the last end of a traffic jam.
In all cars around you could see only loughing faces
I must say, that I never felt any mercy with the four dead and two badly injured guys. It was totally their fault.
In the Audi were six(!) young guys, all Bundeswehr-soldiers, none of them was buckled up. It was still dark at half past five in the morning, but it was clear and dry and this Autobahn has not any curves or hills at all.
Shortly before a Polish Van had a rather light accident with a truck, which transported cooking oil. The damaged Van stood on the left lane, behind it a car with hazard lights on, the slightly damaged truck stood on the breakdown line.
Since the beginning of the Autobahn A31 the Audi drove with 200 km/h and more on the left lane. When the driver saw the accident, he tried to pass it via the breakdown lane. But there stood the truck. So the morons smashed into it.
Some month later I've witnessed a crash at the entry of our village. I've followed on the country road a Golf II, which went on the left turning lane. It indicated, stopped - and then drove on, despite the oncoming traffic, which I could even see from 200 meters behind! I thought "Hmm, this looks not really good", and in this moment the Golf smashed frontal into an oncoming Golf IV. Noone was injured, but boths Golfs were totaled.
My wife (btw., she is busy with car accidents the whole day. It's her profession in the claim settlement of an insurance. I'm in that business, too, but not for car accidents) once spotted a crash, which made all people around, incl. her really happy
When she entered the Autobahn 44 right besides the Düsseldorf Airport, there was an annoying asshole-driver in a VW Phaeton, whoc drove like a shithead. He entered the Autobahn via the breakdown lane, tried to overtake all other cars on the right side (forbidden in Germany), shoved the others, used the flash lights and so on. As of course he never hold an appropiate distance, he couldn't see, what happened before. Once, after he jerkily went behind a Van from the middle to the left lane (of course too narrow to the following car) he smashed fully into the the last end of a traffic jam.
In all cars around you could see only loughing faces