Deadly car crash on Ohio's A7 highway

Fatal Accident on A7 Near Kothen: Police, Rescue Services, and Red Cross Respond

A tragic incident occurred on the A7 near Kothen at around 14:45, resulting in the death of a car driver. The accident involved a Peugeot 308 and a stationary truck with Polish registration, and the collision took place for unknown reasons.

The car driver, a 52-year-old individual from the Neuwied area, sustained fatal injuries and passed away at the scene. Thankfully, the truck driver remained uninjured.

Police officers from Petersberg, Fulda, and other nearby towns, fire services from Kalbach, Niederkalbach, and Uttrichshausen, the Red Cross rescue service, and the rescue helicopter Christoph 28 were all deployed at the scene to manage the incident. The Command and Control Service of the PP East Hesse, prepared by Rehm, EPHK, oversaw the operation.

The highway was closed in the southbound direction from around 14:45 to 17:00 for recovery operations and the work of an expert commissioned by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Fulda to reconstruct the events of the accident. Traffic was diverted accordingly during the closure.

The damage to the vehicles involved in the accident is estimated to be around 50,000 euros.

For more updates on this incident, you can follow the Police of Eastern Hesse on Instagram at https://instagram.com/polizei_oh, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PolizeiOsthessen/, YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUGcNYNkgEozGyLACRu7Khw, and on their homepage at https://ppoh.polizei.hessen.de/Startseite/.

For general inquiries, you can contact the Police Headquarters for East Hesse via Severingstraße 1-7, Fulda, with phone number 0661 / 105-1099, email [email protected] (Mon-Fri, during business hours), and a central contact number 0661 / 105-0X available at https://X.com/polizei_oh. The name of the spokesperson for the press and public relations service of the Police University of Eastern Hesse is not explicitly stated in the provided search results; the contact is generally given as the press and public relations office of the Polizeipräsidium Osthessen.