...yes, this post is in the right section.
We're slowly driving back in the motorhome (is there any other way, you ask?) escaping from a cold and very wet Southern Germany. We'd decided on a stay at Kelheim, on the confluence of the Donau and the Main canal as we'd cycled here in the past, and it looked a good base to explore from.
The Stellplatz, however, was adjacent to a fair/festival just being set up which would be active to midnight for some days, so we moved on a few miles to Riedenburg, where we've stayed once before.
Parked up and walked back in to town to the background of many sirens. With blue lights visible it was obvious that something had happened on the road we had used minutes before. More and more ambulances arrived, several "Notarzt" vehicles, and finally the first of the air ambulances. All was very visible from the bridge into town.
The road hadn't been closed. Just a local guy waving his arms and sending people up through the town. The helicopter circled once, and then it looked like he'd head some distance away but no, one more turn and he dropped it on the road between the (close) trees, and then got the cones out of the helicopter to close the road.
If that wasn't impressive enough, a second helicopter arrived moments later, and dropped onto the canal side cycle path, closer to the accident and even closer to the trees!
Frankly, it didn't look good; a minibus sideways-on flattened to the windscreen and a car down the bank towards the canal. Lots of frantic work going on, and on-road treatment/resuscitation, so we thought it best to stop rubbernecking.
We eventually heard both helicopters depart.
Local news has scant detail other than the above, but apparently two dogs were rescued unhurt from the car.
Edit
and just updated
www.donaukurier.de/lokales/landkreis-kelheim/kleinbus-kollidiert-mit-auto-mehrere-verletzte-in-riedenburg-11195939
Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Tue 16 May 23 at 15:27
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