Fatal car crash on Ohio's A7 highway

A traffic accident occurred on the A7 near Kothen at around 14:45, causing significant disruption to traffic in the area. According to the Command and Control Service of the PP East Hesse, led by Rehm, EPHK, the incident involved a car, a Peugeot 308, and a truck with Polish registration.

Unfortunately, the driver of the car, a 52-year-old from the Neuwied area, sustained fatal injuries. The truck driver remained uninjured. The estimated total damage to the vehicles involved in the accident is around 50,000 euros.

Additional emergency services were deployed at the scene, including highway police from Petersberg, police officers from Fulda, fire services from Kalbach, Niederkalbach, and Uttrichshausen, the Red Cross rescue service, and the rescue helicopter Christoph 28.

The accident occurred for unknown reasons, and an expert has been commissioned by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Fulda to reconstruct the events leading to the accident. However, the search results do not provide the name of the expert appointed for this task.

Traffic was diverted during the closure, which lasted from around 16:00 to 17:00 for recovery and expert work. The motorway was closed in the southbound direction.

For more updates on this incident, you can follow the Police Headquarters East Hesse on Instagram at https://instagram.com/polizei_oh, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PolizeiOsthessen/, YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUGcNYNkgEozGyLACRu7Khw, and the homepage at https://ppoh.polizei.hessen.de/Startseite/.

If you have any questions or need further information, you can contact the Police Headquarters East Hesse at Severingstraße 1-7, 36041 Fulda, phone number 0661 / 105-1099, email [email protected] (Mon-Fri, during office hours), central contact phone number 0661 / 105-0X, and online at https://X.com/polizei_oh.