- A vacationing woman is caught by a truck and dies.
On the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, a vacationer from Saxony was struck by a tractor and died. The 74-year-old woman had been standing with her bicycle on the roadside in Neu Mukran in the afternoon when the tractor with a trailer carrying hay bales passed her, police said. It is unclear why the woman then ended up under the right rear wheel of the trailer. She died at the scene of the accident.
The 27-year-old tractor driver was uninjured. He was cared for by the psychosocial emergency service after the accident. No abnormalities were found in him, it was reported. The police have commissioned an expert to investigate the cause of the accident. For the investigation into the course of the accident, the police are now looking for persons who were present as witnesses or first responders.
The tractor incident occurred in Germany, as mentioned, with the incident happening on the island of Rügen. Upon completing the investigation, authorities may need to issue a report to the relevant authorities in Germany.
