“Hit-and-Run Tragedy in Wesseling-Keldenich: Police Urgently Seek Witnesses to Fleeing Driver’s Identity”

Wesseling (ots)

Emergency services secured traces and secured evidence – the Rhein-Erft district police had already deployed an investigative team

The Cologne public prosecutor and the Rhein-Erft district police announce:

On the night of Sunday (March 26), a pedestrian (20) in Wesseling-Keldenich was hit by an unknown driver and critically injured. Alerted police officers immediately began resuscitating the young man at the scene of the accident, which rescue workers later continued. A few hours later, the 20-year-old succumbed to his most serious injuries in a university clinic. After the traffic accident, police officers immediately searched for the fleeing vehicle and its driver.

Officials from the traffic commissariat have already started the investigation and are urgently looking for witnesses who can provide information on the course of the accident. The police officers will take tips on 02233 52-0 or by email to poststelle.rhein-erft-kreis@polizei.nrw.de.

At around 1 a.m., a witness reported hearing a loud bang from his apartment. When he looked a little later on Rodenkirchener Straße, he saw a person lying there. The alarmed police officers found the seriously injured young man at the described location a little later and immediately began resuscitation.

Other police officers searched extensively for the person who fled the accident, secured evidence at the scene of the accident and immediately began investigating. Among other things, the traffic accident recording team of the Cologne police was on duty. The officers found extensive evidence at the scene of the accident. Including the pedestrian’s outerwear, his mobile phone and an object that could have come from the fleeing vehicle. A dog handler used his police dog to search the scene of the accident for other objects that could be related to the accident. On the instructions of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office, police confiscated the body of the deceased.

Investigators from the traffic commissariat of the Rhein-Erft-Kreis police have already started evaluating the traces and the available witness statements. Among other things, they are following an indication that the 20-year-old could have been sitting on the road on Rodenkirchener Straße at the time of the accident.

Uniformed officers completely cordoned off the affected area of ​​Rodenkirchener Strasse for the duration of the rescue work and the accident investigation. (hey)