Overview
- Prosecutors have charged two 22-year-old former 1. FC Köln youth players with a prohibited race causing two deaths and endangering road traffic.
- The indictment states the Audi and Mercedes drove side by side, used the hard shoulder, and accelerated beyond 200 km/h near the Wesseling exit.
- One car allegedly struck a VW Polo traveling about 100 km/h at roughly 205 km/h, igniting the vehicle and killing a 49-year-old mother and her 23-year-old daughter at the scene.
- Proceedings are set to begin at the Landgericht Köln on February 20 with six hearing days after referral from the Amtsgericht Brühl.
- In separate cases under investigation, two people died in a head-on crash in Wipperfürth, four were injured in a right-of-way collision in Kamenz, an 85-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck in Soest, and a B8 crash injured a 70-year-old and his 10-year-old granddaughter near Langenfeld.