Driver breaks through barrier and crashes into hospital parking lot in Heidelberg

Quelle: PR-VIDEO (Glomex)

Heidelberg: A serious traffic accident occurred on Friday morning at around 8:00 a.m. in the visitors' parking lot of the Thorax Clinic in Heidelberg-Rohrbach. According to initial information, a driver wanted to pull a parking ticket with his BMW X1. In doing so, the man may have confused the brake and gas pedal pedals. The car accelerated strongly, broke through the barrier at the entrance and, after about 40 meters, crashed with great force into a parked Ford Kuga. This was pushed against another BMW X1 parked next to it. The driver and passenger were injured in the accident and taken to hospitals. Fortunately, no person was hit in the parking lot. The damage to property is estimated at around 70,000 euros. The traffic accident service has taken up the investigation.