Disney World lamborghini accident: Cops say the driver lost control, spun three times before a fatal accident
By MARCUS KLOECKNER AND JENNIFER H SVAN AND STRIPES STARS Published July 22, 2010.
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany A car accident that killed two airmen of the Air Base Spangdahlem and wounded another earlier this month arrived the vehicle was traveling at about 200 kilometers per hour, or about 120 mph and lost control over an autobahn curve, according to officials of the German police.
The BMW M3 crashed about 3 to 30 m p July 11 on Highway 60 between Bitburg and Spangdahlem, near a bridge called K hltalbr CKE.
Amanda Jotham and Brandon McDonald, both first-class airmen died in the accident, officials of the Air Force said Jotham last week was assigned to the 52nd Squadron of the security forces, and McDonald was a member of the 52nd Squadron medical operations.
The injured airman, whose name was not disclosed, suffered minor injuries and was released from the hospital, base officials said.
Officer of the German police Natascha Raab-Sauer, who responded to the scene of the accident, said it was not clear how fast the car was traveling, but he would probably at least 200 km / h the vehicle crashed shortly after passing another car and entered a long curve, right, said Raab-Sauer.
The driver, who Raab-Sauer said is 21, lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a guardrail and rolled, landing on top of the guardrail before coming to rest on the side of the road the driver the car had been arrested and had called the police, she said.
The driver of the BMW was able to exit the car itself after the accident, but emergency personnel had to extract a passenger from the back seat by cutting the vehicle.
Raab-Sauer said police did not believe alcohol played a role in the incident.
Spangdahlem spokesman 1st Lt. Kate Polesnak declined to comment Thursday on the German report, saying that the base officials awaited the results of the Air Force investigation into the accident investigators from the Air Force Security await to complete their report in two weeks or less, said Polesnak.
According to an obituary online in the Journal of the hometown of Jotham in Sarasota, Florida Jotham, 19, had reported that Spangdahlem June 22, the first service station in the Air Force.
McDonald, 20, left a spouse and a girl, according to an online memorial dedicated to him.
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