German+crash-lands+car+on+church+roof
A motorist crashed onto a church roof in eastern Germany overnight, after missing a bend in a road, breaking through a barrier and hurtling up a bank.
The bank acted like a springboard, propelling the black Skoda about 35 metres forward and straight into the church’s roof frame, where it remained wedged 7 metres off the ground, police said.
“We’ve never ever had a case of a car landing in a church before,” Chemnitz police spokesman Frank Fischer said.
The 23-year-old driver suffered serious injuries.
The damage to the car, which was extracted from the roof by a crane, amounts to about 10,000 euros ($19,891), police said.
The cost of damage to the church has not yet been estimated.
Police said speed was a possible cause for the accident.
Tags: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, germany, road-accidents
February 17th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
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CONVERSION FAIL!
March 6th, 2009 at 2:50 am
>> you needa check your currency conversoin rates, 10,000 euros is 12,585.92 US dollars. you are WAY OFF!! <<
Simple explanation – if you listen the voice is English – that would be the conversion to GBP, pretty well spot on of late. BUT, the standard PC has a US display code-page and has therefore displayed the pound sign as a Dollar sign.
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