Accidents: Car crashes into truck at A46 rest area - two dead

Two men died in an accident at a service area on Autobahn 46 on Sunday night.

Accidents: Car crashes into truck at A46 rest area - two dead

Two men died in an accident at a service area on Autobahn 46 on Sunday night. The car, which was occupied by four young men, was heading towards Wuppertal-Nord, a police spokesman said on Sunday morning. At the Sternenberg-Süd service area, the driver then apparently left the motorway at significantly too high a speed.

His car hit a lane divider and then slammed into two parked trucks. The driver and one of the passengers died at the scene of the accident, the other two occupants were seriously injured. The fire department freed one of them from the wreckage of the car, according to a message.

According to the police spokesman, the two trucks were properly parked on the grounds of the rest area. Their drivers were not in the vehicles at the time of the accident. Further details were not initially known.

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