Berlin – A fatal traffic accident occurred in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick on Monday. According to the previous investigations by the Berlin police, a 38-year-old cyclist drove from a forest path to the Alte Fischerweg shortly before 11 a.m. in the Rahnsdorf district. According to initial findings, it should have hit the passenger door and the window pane of the car.
Due to the violent impact, the cyclist was thrown through the air and hit the ground hard. According to the police, he suffered such serious injuries to his head and trunk that he died a short time later in a hospital. The 80-year-old wife of the car driver, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was injured in the face by fragments of glass flying around.
Berlin: The number of traffic accidents with senior citizens has increased
A police spokeswoman was unable to say who was to blame for the fatal collision on Tuesday at the request of the Berliner Zeitung. The investigations are still ongoing. The exact cause of the accident is to be clarified together with a technical expert and forensic technicians. The bicycle and the car were seized as evidence. The 38-year-old’s body is now being autopsied as usual in fatal traffic accidents in order to find out the exact cause of death.
The 38-year-old is already the 15th person to have died in Berlin in 2021 and the fifth cyclist to die. In Berlin, the number of traffic accidents in which senior citizens are involved rose by 13 percent last year. According to the police, a total of 17,512 elderly people were involved in accidents, of which 1,530 were injured and 21 were killed.
