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'Police on Monday were trying to figure out exactly how a 23-year-old driver in a town near Chemnitz managed to crash his car into a church roof seven meters off the ground.'

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zei ... 42,00.html

Nope - to far...

But we have been at this:



A truck driver overlooked a construction cordon on Interstate (Autobahn) A3.
He crashed thrue the barrier, drove over the already memolished bridge, flew with his 40 tons truck over a 6mtrs "hole" to land on the other side, loosing all his wheels, engine bay "instead" of falling down 16mtrs...

See video and pics from our local news:

Wie tat er den? Wurde der lastwagenfahrer getrunken? oder war es das Wetter? I ch nicht verstehen den voll Artikel

How did he do that?, Was the truck driver drunk? Or was it the weather? I don't understand all of the article.

I saw that car on british news and wondered how on earth you could get your car to jump 7 meters up... lucky the church was there really or it might have ended worse for the driver.

I think both should become stunt drivers now, if you can jump a 40 ton truck or crash a car into a church 7 meters up, you have the experience

Gaz
(Currenlty being snowed in again!)

Garron wrote:Wie tat er den? Wurde der lastwagenfahrer getrunken? oder war es das Wetter? I ch nicht verstehen den voll Artikel

Well done

Garron wrote: How did he do that?, Was the truck driver drunk? Or was it the weather? I don't understand all of the article.

The Autobahn goes "downhill" there, makes you faster and faster...



...right before you enter the bridge

There is a hugh construction.
They made a new bridge, LEFT BESIDE the old one (blue line).



The truck driver went (better crashed) STRAIGHT thrue the barriers (red line). Why he didn´t saw all the lights, roadsignes, all other making a left turn - nobody knows.
It was late in the evening, that polnish fellow was far from home, driving for hours and hours and hours...


All the asphalt-lane had already been removed from the concret "frame", just the "skelleton" was left over.
He "slided" with his truck over a single 50cm "weide" concrete "beam" to the other side








Better?

Thanks a lot, that clears it up. He was very lucky but must have been travelling at a high speed to jump that gap.

Gaz

Wow!!! probably that pole was tired and sleepy....Is he alive????I bet with a few schatches???

by the way Gaz,your german is good...keep it up!
Peace!

Bypah wrote:Wow!!! probably that pole was tired and sleepy....Is he alive????I bet with a few schatches???

Not a single hair got bent...

Nobody noticed that.
A police car stopped on the other side on the bridge for a flat tire car. They accidently discovered that (dark) truck and the shocked and confused driver.

Fire deparments ladder got him down.

Latest pics:

Air few:



At 1, the truck crashed thrue the barrier.
Green line: trucks way thrue the whole construction area


Feb 28th, they will blow the bridge.
We´ll be there, oposite hill, with camcorder...

This truck driver didn't only lost his way, he also lost his truck and probably his driver lisence too. But not his life! Lucky bastard.

aquarius wrote: and probably his driver lisence

As the driver was a (polnish) foreigner, German authorities can´t take him away his drivers license
He will get a "ticket" twice expansive than a German driver would get and IF he was drunk, a driving ban for Germany - but will keep his polnish license

housil wrote:and IF he was drunk, a driving ban for Germany - but will keep his polnish license

having a few polish friends/neighbours and having been there, I guess the Polish license must allow to drive drunk