About a week ago, I chatted over this big major accident in mid-town Wiesbaden....maybe 500 to 800 ft from the train station....six lane street area...main drag of town. Main result....Mercedes ran some red-light, collided with a VW. VW occupant killed, and the Mercedes flipped over.
At the time, because of the flip-over....lot of folks figured excessive speed (this part of town is 50 kph max....31 mph.
So the initial investigation concluded.
Mercedes driver (24 years old) was racing at excessive speed against a 3rd car (Audi) when he ran the red-light.
It's a common theme in the Frankfurt region now....racing on 50 kph streets and even on the autobahn network around the Frankfurt area.
Mercedes occupants? Driver, and three passengers seriously injured. Audi situation? He wasn't involved in the crash.
Police? Charges coming up....reckless driving and murder against the 24-year old guy. For the Audi driver....probably reckless driving. Both permanently losing their license to drive? What the authorities tend to do.....take the license for a year, and then apply the 'dummy-test' (officially called the MPU, or by Germans....the Idiotientest). Yes, the 'idiot's test'.
My son brought up the topic of the Idiotientest last year....one of his associates had to take it. On average.....about 100,000 tests a year are given....with only half the folks passing on the first chance.
The test is built in some way to identify slow-thinkers.
On charges....I'm guessing the 24-year-old will get a minimum of eight years in prison, and there might be enough there on the 3rd driver (the racer) to get at least six to twelve months of jail).
But the other side affecting the rest of us.....there's probably going to be some massive push for blitz cameras around town....on the main 'drags'. There's probably thirty cameras around town now, and it wouldn't shock me if they added another dozen by mid-summer of 2023.....to the four-lane streets leading out of town.
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