One dead and two seriously injured. This is the balance sheet of a collision between two cars on the main road I/20 outside Pilsen.
The collision occurred shortly after noon on the I/20 road in front of the village of Nová Hospoda near the Robin Oil gas station. “The driver of a 1953 Škoda Felicia vehicle was driving along the I/20 road in the direction of travel from Karlovy Vary to Plzeň. About 500 meters after the turnoff to the village of Příšov, he drove in the opposite direction for as yet unknown reasons and collided head-on with an oncoming Škoda Octavia vehicle, which a 1955 man was driving,” said police spokeswoman Michaela Raindlová.
According to regional ambulance spokeswoman Mária Svobodová, paramedics treated two injured people on the spot, but the driver of one of the vehicles could no longer be helped. “It was a male driver, year 1955, who suffered moderate injuries. He was transported to the emergency department of the Lochotín University Hospital while conscious. His female passenger, year 1957, suffered numerous serious injuries and was transported by air ambulance to the Emergency University Hospital Lochotín. The man from the second car he suffered very serious injuries incompatible with life, the doctor of the emergency service pronounced him dead on the spot,” she calculated.
The seriously injured driver was not breathalyzed for alcohol on the spot and a blood sample was ordered. “A forensic autopsy was ordered for the deceased,” added Raindlová, adding that the case was taken over by criminal investigators from the Pilsen Rural Territorial Department.
