The death of a 48-year-old driver whose car was rammed during an illegal street race on the Wiener Ring on Sunday evening caused horror. However, the 26-year-old driver, who allegedly caused the fatal accident, denies a race – the suspect also does not want to be driving too fast.
The accident happened around 7:45 p.m. on the Schottenring near the Vienna Stock Exchange. Two men, the 26-year-old and another, were on the Ring with their high-horsepower cars, a Mercedes and a BMW. According to the police, the 26-year-old raced his vehicle through an intersection when it was red and crashed into the car of the 48-year-old woman who wanted to cross the ring road. The woman was trapped in her badly damaged car and had to use hydraulic equipment from the professional fire brigade be recovered. After emergency medical care by the professional rescue service, she was taken to the trauma room of a hospital, where she succumbed to her serious injuries. Investigations into negligent homicide The 26-year-old, who was slightly injured in the accident, was arrested on the spot. It was a Syrian citizen with a Belgian driver’s license who does not live in Vienna. According to police spokesman Markus Dittrich, he stated that he was here as a tourist. The car was registered to him. A public health officer found that the young man had not only apparently been traveling too fast, but was also overtired. The police are investigating negligent homicide on the road. The 26-year-old is in a prison. A video recorded by a car driving behind the vehicles involved documented what happened. “You can see the whole race and the accident, of course from a certain distance, because the two started faster than the other road users,” says Dittrich. The 26-year-old competes in the race “on principle”. to have raced. “He basically denies it and says he didn’t race and doesn’t want to have driven too fast,” Dittrich told APA on Tuesday. The driver of the second vehicle, which is said to have been involved in the road race, turned himself in during the official act on Sunday. Initially, the police only listed him as a witness. Nothing has changed in this status: “He has not yet been questioned,” said Dittrich.
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