Panorama Accident on A3
Fatal concrete slab fall – authorities speak of “improvisation”
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Concrete slab weighing tons falls on the car – the driver dies
On the A3 in the direction of Oberhausen, a car was hit by a block of noise protection wall weighing several tons. The Polo driver died at the scene of the accident.
A concrete part comes loose from the noise barrier and kills a car driver. The road building authority blames an “intentionally chosen improvisation”. Six more plates are affected.
DAccording to Straßen.NRW, he fatal accident with a concrete slab from a noise barrier on the A3 near Cologne can be traced back to an “intentionally chosen improvisation” during installation in 2007. This should obviously be bridged a height difference during assembly, said a spokesman for the state company on Wednesday. In the chosen construction with an angle, a welded-on screw did not sustain the tensile forces of the four to five-tonne part made of reinforced concrete.
There was initially no information on the question of liability by the commissioned company.
In its last scheduled inspection in 2013, the panel was rated “very good”. According to a report by the state government to the transport committee of the Düsseldorf state parliament, the defects found in the bracket were not visible. “It can be assumed that the faulty construction would not have been noticed in the upcoming test because it is hidden behind the noise protection panel,” the Ministry of Transport said in the report.
Six more plates with the same construction
The concrete slab had come loose on Friday and crashed into the car of a 66-year-old woman from Cologne who died at the scene of the accident. The public prosecutor’s office has initiated proceedings for negligent homicide – initially against unknown persons. The case is also a topic in the state parliament’s transport committee on Wednesday.
The same construction was installed on six other noise protection panels, which will now be removed as quickly as possible. When this would happen, the spokesman could not say on Wednesday morning. Until then, the two outer lanes of the motorway should remain closed.
It should not be assumed that there is acute danger with similar structures, it was said on Tuesday. Nevertheless, the authority is checking whether there are other noise barriers with similar constructions in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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