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Three dead following head-on collision

Two people died at the scene of a head-on collision between two cars on a main road in Dalarna in central Sweden on Monday afternoon.

Published: 19 October 2009 17:43 CEST

A third victim died later from injuries sustained in the crash.

The accident took place on route 70 between Vikarbyn and Rättsvik around 3.30pm.

A 65-year-old couple, who were driving in one of the cars, died on the scene. Occupants of the second car included an 80-year-old woman, a 60-year-old man, as well as a 25-year-old man.

All three were taken to hospital in nearby Mora. Later in the evening, the hospital announced that the woman had died from her injuries. The two men received less serious injuries, but remained in hospital for observation.

The cause of the accident is not yet known, although icy conditions have been noted on roads in Dalarna county over the course of the day.

“There have been icy patches in some places, but I can’t say if that was the case there or if it was the cause of the accident,” said commanding officer Yasemin Mollaoglu to the TT news agency.

Subsequent reports indicated that the stretch of road where the accident took place wasn’t icy at the time of the crash.

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POLICE

Woman dies after crash with police car in central Berlin

An as yet unidentified woman died of her injuries on Monday after a police car collided with her vehicle in Berlin Mitte.

Published: 29 January 2018 16:25 CET
Woman dies after crash with police car in central Berlin
Photo: Berlin fire services

The collision happened on Grunerstraße as the woman tried to change lanes, according to police.

Police believe that the woman was trying to park in the central avenue of the street and failed to notice an approaching police vehicle, which was travelling at high speed with its siren on.

The police vehicle, which was travelling to the scene of a robbery in Potsdamer Platz, rammed into the driver’s side of her car at high speed.

A medic attempted to save the woman’s life at the scene of the accident, but she succumbed to her injuries.

Two police officers were also slightly injured in the collision and are said to have suffered a severe trauma due to the consequences of the crash.

It is still unclear how fast the police vehicle was driving, but a data recorded inside the vehicle will be able to give exact information on this when it has been analyzed. An independent analyst has been called in to evaluate the data.

The worst accident involving a police car took place not far from the scene of Monday’s crash. In 1993 a police car hit two children on the Schlossbrücke, killing them both, according to Tagesspiegel.

In 2005 a police vehicle drove through a red light with its siren on and hit a motorbike that was travelling across the junction. The motorcyclist was killed in the crash.

Tagesspiegel reports that there have previously been complaints that police drive too fast through the capital city.