Were you at this one, Housil?

[Baldy]

'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

[housil]

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:

[Garron]

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!)

[housil]

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

Well done

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?

[Garron]

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

[Bypah]

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!

[housil]

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...

[aquarius]

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.

[housil]

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

[Stef]

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