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July 24th, 2014 Landshut, Germany...


At 11:5am A M5 was crashed at high speeds during a test drive in Vilsheim, in Southern Germany. The accident happened in the small village of Vilsheim, near Landshut. The M5 was travelling at a very high speed on the German back roads of this area. The speed limit was 100 kph and its safe to say the driver was travelling much faster than that!


The 42 year old test driver drove, the M5 test car off the road to the right side of the road into a ditch. Then the driver tried to regain control but failed. The car had skid marks under braking approximately 50 to 60 meters long. The skid trail to the left of the road and hit a telephone pole, which was demolished by the force of the impact. Then, the car went another further 200 meters coming to rest upside down in a field. The driver was airlifted by helicopter and suffered life threatening injures. He was taken to Landshut hospital. The passenger luckily escape with only minor injures - and was transported to a local hospital.

The state attorney's office has opened an investigation into wreckless driving charges and other offences. The value of the test car was aprox 90K euros plus damages to the communication lines(telephone pole) and road surface.


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News source...
http://www.wochenblatt.de/nachrichte...r;art67,255056