Hohnstein (Sachsen) – Three people were killed within an hour in two tragic traffic accidents over the weekend in Saxon Switzerland.
As the police announced, a man (52) and his passenger (49) died on a motorcycle in the Hohnstein district of Rathewalde.
On Saturday afternoon at around 3 p.m., the two of them were on their red Yamaha machine on Hohnsteiner Straße towards Hocksteinschänke (district of Saxon Switzerland-Osterzgebirge).
According to initial findings by the police, the man started to overtake in front of a curve. “He fell and got into an oncoming seat,” said a spokesman. The driver and his passenger were so badly injured that they died at the scene of the accident.
The road had to be closed for about five hours for the rescue and accident recording.
18-year-old dies in passenger seat
The VW Golf got into oncoming traffic
In another serious accident nearby, an 18-year-old man died in the passenger seat shortly afterwards.
According to the police, the teenager drove around 4 p.m. together with a 25-year-old in a VW Golf on the S 169 from Leupoldishain (Königsstein) in the direction of Krietzschwitz (Pirna).
The driver suddenly lost control for reasons that have not yet been clarified. He went off the road, hit a delineator and threw himself into oncoming traffic.
There the car crashed into the Ford of a 54-year-old woman. The 25-year-old and the Ford driver were seriously injured in the collision. Any help came too late for the 18-year-old passenger in the Golf, he succumbed to his injuries at the scene of the accident.
The road had to be closed for about six hours for the rescue work. The property damage is around 15,000 euros, according to the police.
Traffic accident police officers are investigating the causes of the two accidents.