Overview

• The family car left the roadway and came to rest heavily damaged in a ditch about three kilometres before the Parsberg junction toward Passau.
• Rescuers attempted to resuscitate the 32-year-old mother and her weeks-old baby, but both were pronounced dead at the scene.
• The 34-year-old father and the couple’s three-year-old daughter suffered injuries assessed as not serious and were taken to a hospital.
• A large multi-agency response from police, fire, ambulance services and highway maintenance attended, and the A3 was fully closed in the area for hours.
• Verkehrspolizei Parsberg is leading the investigation with a crash expert on site, and heavy rain at the time was reported by officials.