A driver first crashes into a truck, talks about microsleeping and is shortly afterwards fatally injured in a follow-up accident.
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A driver collided with a truck and the guardrail on the A9 and was later fatally injured in a subsequent accident.
A man was trapped between two vehicles on the A9 motorway in the direction of Munich and was fatally injured. In the early morning hours near Pfaffenhofen, the driver first drove his car into a parked truck and then into the guardrail.
After the accident, the man is said to have told another truck driver on site that he had previously fallen asleep at the wheel. He went to the trunk. A van drove head-on into the unsecured accident scene and trapped the man between the two vehicles. He was seriously injured and died on site.
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