The biting smell of petrol is still above the scene of the accident where two young women have lost their lives. Otherwise, only a little reminds of what happened here on an industrial area in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart on Thursday evening. After initial knowledge of the police, the car where the two young women are sitting on the street at 8:00 p.m. and gets into a suspected illegal car race. According to the police, two cars drive from the city center to the Ludwigsburg-Süd motorway junction with a possibly too high speed. A driver bounces into the vehicle of the two young women with his black upper class Mercedes. According to the police, the collision is thrown off the road and pinched between two trees. A car lying on the side can be seen on pictures from the accident site. The car is completely destroyed, especially on the driver’s side, the roof apparently separated rescue workers. The 23-year-old driver and her 22-year-old passenger are caught in the wreck and have to be freed from emergency services. They are so seriously injured that they both die at the scene of the accident. A driver is arrested, the other fleeting driver of the accident car, a 32-year-old Turk, is slightly injured and comes to a hospital for monitoring. At the order of the public prosecutor, he is temporarily arrested, and the officials confiscated his driver’s license. A judge at the Stuttgart District Court later issues an arrest warrant against him, and he is accused of participation in a forbidden motor vehicle race with death consequences in two cases. The 32-year-old is in custody, and the driver of the second car is still unknown and on the run the day after. The investigators discover the car, a black Mercedes near the scene of the accident. “Inmates were not on site,” says a message. The scene of the accident puts flowers and cards the day after the catastrophe, a candle can also be seen. Relatives are also on site, they cry. Ludwigsburg’s mayor Matthias Knecht (independent) also laid out flowers at the scene of the accident and is stunned. “This act is terrible. We are all dismayed. How can people be so unscrupulous?” He is quoted in a statement from the city. “We are deeply shaken and angry about this terrible crime, which caused the senseless death of two uninvolved people.” At the Ludwigsburg police headquarters, an investigation with 15 employees of transport and criminal police started working. The officials also stopped a passerby at the accident site who took pictures of the vehicles involved and the injured with his cell phone. According to the Interior Ministry, the police in the southwest registered more than one race a day – a total of 392. Almost half of the cases passed between Friday evening and Sunday evening. In the first half of the last year, 207 races were reported – in addition to classic car races with several participants, so -called “alone races” and escape trips can fall in front of the police, according to a spokesman for the Interior Ministry. Races are repeatedly available in front of the number of accidents in which illegal races are suspected as the cause, is still far higher nationwide. A survey by the “Spiegel” magazine in the federal states came to 6,187 suspected cases for 2023. In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, according to the police, 15 people died on the streets in connection with the forbidden strength measurement on the streets last year. Berlin also counts as a hotspot for illegal races. In the event of races and racing rides, uninvolved people are repeatedly harmed. A case from 2016 is particularly well known, when two men had a race on Ku’damm in Berlin, in which an uninvolved senior died. A driver was then condemned for murder and the second racer for attempted murder. Last April, a 20 -year -old man from the Heilbronn district court was sentenced to a juvenile sentence of nine years for murder. He is said to have caused a fatal accident in the middle of the city center of Heilbronn, in which a 42-year-old father died. This was threatened with illegal autoren2019 a then 21-year-old in Stuttgart had to answer for murder to the district court. He had lost control of a rented sports car at high speed and had collided with a small car with his car, in whose ruins two people died. In the end, he was convicted of five years of youth penalty for manslaughter, but also to participate in races there are threatening sensitive punishments. Illegal car racing has been a crime since October 2017. Since then, participation or organizing a race can be punished with up to two years in prison. If people are also endangered, the punitive framework is even up to five years in prison. If a person is killed or is seriously injured, the law provides for up to ten years in prison. A “race against itself” is also punishable.
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