According to eyewitness reports, the sports car was traveling at more than 220 kilometers per hour on the A27 in the direction of Bremen. That was fast, but allowed at this point shortly before Walsrode, said a police spokesman in Bad Fallingbostel.
According to the police, the driver started skidding after the tire burst and lost control of the vehicle. The car first broke the center line, then the side boundary, grazed several trees and finally landed next to the highway in the ditch.
There, the Ferrari burned out completely. "It was immediately apparent that the inmates were beyond help," said the spokesman for the Kreisfeuerwehr in the Heidekreis, Jens Führer. "The emotional burden of the emergency services is great in such a serious accident, because the images will never release the volunteers."
According to police, one of the two dead is a 57-year-old man from Bad Oeynhausen, the second man has not yet been identified. The police screened the accident site with vehicles and blankets to prevent onlookers from taking pictures there.