Tragic Extrication In Germany

HANNOVER, GERMANY, FIREFIGHTERS HAD A MESS on their hands last Monday the 19th. A car had stopped to repair a flat tire and another auto stopped to assist. While there, a police car with two officers in it pulled up behind the cars and put its blue lights and warning blinkers on.

The tire change was completed and everybody was back in their vehicles, ready to pull back onto the roadway and continue their journeys. Just at that moment a 7½-ton refrigerated truck came along and plowed into the rear of the police car and driving all three cars into a heap.

The truck ended up on its side resting on one of the cars. The police officer that was driving their car was completely mashed and trapped in the vehicle. The Feuerwehr (fire dept.) arrived and went to work with their “jaws of life” tool and extricated everybody.

There were a total of nine people trapped altogether, including three children. The driver of the police car had to be flown by helicopter to the hospital where he died the next day. The 59-yr.-old truck driver is still in the hospital with serious injuries and is facing charges for negligent homicide.