Witnesses report – “Like a bullet”

Witness reports after fatal accident in Tuscany – German tour group to return home “as soon as possible”

Other witness reports also indicate that the 44-year-old driver was apparently unaware of what had actually happened. When asked by passers-by what had happened, she is said to have National replied: “You are wrong, it wasn’t me, it’s not my fault.”

The group of the students who died in the accident had been on a study trip to Tuscany for several days. According to the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior, teachers and students are receiving psychological support. The ministry asked that the school community be given a “protected space to process what happened.” The group in Tuscany should return home “as soon as possible,” according to the dpa.

Deadly Accident in the Tuscany

Update from September 19, 8:30 a.m.: A serious accident occurred on Wednesday evening in the Tuscan holiday resort of Lido di Camaiore. A 44-year-old woman sped uncontrollably through the town centre in her car, hitting several people and other vehicles. Two young German high school graduates were killed while on holiday in Italy. Another person was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

As the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia announced on Thursday morning, the two women killed in the accident were from Duisburg. They were students in the same high school class, according to the dpa.

According to Italian media reports, the driver was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accident. Any tests were negative, reports Retrieved 2018-08-18. Our partner portal from NRW, wa.de, also reports on this.

Two Fatalities after tragic Traffic accident in Italy

Italy: Two German holidaymakers die in car accident in Tuscany

First report from September 19, 6.17 a.m.: Lido di Camaiore – The idyll of the Tuscan coast was suddenly disrupted on Wednesday evening (September 18) by a tragic traffic accident in which two young German women lost their lives. The two teenagers, born in 2005 and 2006, noticed each other on a school trip in the region and were hit by a car that, for reasons that are still unclear, raced into a group of pedestrians.

The accident occurred around 7 p.m. when a 44-year-old woman ran two red lights and lost control of her car. The driver, who according to the police is from Brazil, first hit the two German schoolgirls and then other pedestrians. The vehicle only came to a stop after it had crashed into several parked cars.

Serious car accident in Tuscany ends fatally for two young German women

The two teenagers died at the scene of the accident. A total of seven people were injured, including the driver. According to Mayor Marcello Pierucci, one of the injured people, a woman aged around 60, is in critical condition and was taken to a hospital in Pisa by helicopter. The other injured were taken to hospitals in Massa and the Versilia region.

Driver under the influence of drugs or alcohol? Italian police investigate

The police arrested the driver and conducted toxicological tests to determine whether she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. According to information from the daily newspaper The National The hypothesis that is currently considered the most likely is that the driver could have been surprised by a sudden feeling of unwellness.

Mayor Marcello Pierucci expressed his shock at the incident and described it as unprecedented. “The car drove over everything that got in its way,” he told TV channel 50Canale.

Lido di Camaiore is a coastal town in Tuscany, known for its beach promenade, which is closed to car traffic. However, the accident occurred a few hundred meters away in the center of the town. The popular seaside resorts of Forte dei Marmi and Viareggio are nearby. Just this spring, two Germans were killed in a car accident at a toll booth in Tuscany.