It is a coincidence that the fatal accident last Wednesday even more tragic appear: Since this Tuesday is the right turn from the Alexander street in the Karl-Marx-Allee is allowed in front of the former house of the teacher only cyclists. The ban is connected with the ongoing renovation in the Karl-Marx-Allee, and is, according to transport administration for six weeks.
It would have prevented the driver of the truck, probably because of the fatal right turn maneuver, in which he and the 37-Year-old swept over, the drove to the right of him on the bike path straight. At the scene of the accident a white Geisterrad, candles and flowers to the woman you intend to.
Senator Regine Günther (independent, Green) had announced at an on-site appointment two days after the accident, that the entire plan for the reconstruction of the crossing should again be critically examined. The chronically accident-prone node to be rebuilt by 2020 as a model for safe traffic – including a straight leading Bicycle lanes to the left of the right lane.
The vulnerability of cyclists when almost everyone (with the Car-traffic common) green phase was so massive, that an individual turning open as early as 2016, to the police with the request to remedy the situation. After having done a year later, still nothing, he turned again to the police, who referred him to the Senate administration and the district office middle Managers.
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