Accident near Kiel: Pensioner (74) drives into crowd – five injured

Heikendorf (Schleswig-Holstein) – Apparently he accidentally confused the gas and the brake!

In Heikendorf (8000 inhabitants, Plön district) on the Kiel Fjord, a Pensioner (74) drove into a larger group of people in a rented electric car.

Five people were injured. One woman suffered serious injuries and four others were slightly injured, a police spokeswoman said. All five were taken to nearby hospitals in ambulances.

The 74-year-old driver was uninjured. The police are currently assuming that Accident and not an intentional act. She has begun investigating the accident.

Accident happened near a parking lot

All of the injured were participants in the submarine conference “SubCon” (17-19 September), a spokesman for the company “Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems” announced. They wanted to lay a wreath at the Möltenort submarine memorial when the accident occurred on the shore path near a parking lot at the “Seeblick” beach hotel. The submarine memorial commemorates, among other things, the German soldiers who died in both world wars. U-Boot-units.

He wanted to stop, but he accelerated

According to his own statements, the driver wanted to stop near the parking lot in the late afternoon, as the police However, he accidentally drove forward into a bollard, ran over it and then collided with a group of people walking there.

The municipality in the district of Plön in Schleswig-Holstein is located on the eastern shore of the Kiel Fjord and borders the urban area of Like.