On early Thursday morning (21.08.2008/05:35 am) a 7-person VW T 4, model Caravelle, drove the BAB A 31 on the left lane in the direction of Emden. The small bus registered in Poland was on the way from Düsseldorf to Poland. At the wheel was a 30-year-old man, with him two 12-year-old children, as well as 4 other adults between 21 and 40 years in the vehicle. In the section of the A 31 between the connecting points Kirchhellen and Kirchhellen-Nord saw In the rear-view mirror, he quickly approached a vehicle from the rear and wanted to switch to the right lane about 400 m before the exit Kirchhellen-Nord. When changing, he collided with a silo tank truck (40 tons) of a 38-year-old truck driver from Coesfeld. The truck was loaded with edible oil. The minibus got into slingshot and came to a stop across the roadway on the fast lane. A subsequent 27-year-old car driver from Bottrop secured the accident location in the area The 48-year-old driver of a tractor (without semi-trailer) from Bottrop also secured the accident site. He had positioned the tractor on the stand strip with the warning devices switched on. According to the first testimonies, a few minutes later, an Audi A 6 crewed with six people approached at high speed. The driver probably realized the situation too late and not right. He tried to get around the accident site and drove almost Two passengers were hurled out of the A6. These and two other people in the Audi suffered fatal injuries. The other two passengers were seriously injured and sent to the surrounding hospitals by the rescue services. The accident victims were supplied by several emergency doctors and the professional fire brigade Bottrop. 3 passengers from the VW T 4 were slightly injured in the collision with the silo train. . http://www.presseportal.de/…/police_muenster