After the death of two young people: Drifting from the parking roof to their death?

After a car fell from the top floor of a multi-storey car park in Essen, in which two young men died on Easter Sunday evening, there are growing indications that the driver lost control of the green, older-type VW Golf during a daring manoeuvre, so that the Car smashed through a parapet and fell 15 meters.

Investigators have marked tire tracks with neon yellow paint on the top floor of the multi-storey car park in Essen's Borbeck district, which lead in a wide arc directly to the abyss.

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"We are still in the process of finally clarifying whether these tracks can be assigned to the car and whether there was so-called drifting before the accident," said a spokeswoman for the Essen police headquarters of the FAZ. The police have been registering for years that there are Poser and tuner scene to dangerous drift manoeuvres, in which drivers deliberately oversteer, let the rear of their cars swerve and then slide in the arc with squeaking and sometimes smoking tires.

Because the vehicles can swerve in an uncontrolled manner, drifting accidents occur again and again.

In the Essen case, it has now been clarified that neither of the two 19- and 16-year-old inmates had a driver's license.

It is still unclear who was behind the wheel of the VW Golf, which had no license plates.

The analysis of the blood samples was initially pending.

"An autopsy of the corpses is not planned because the fall is obviously the cause of death," said the police spokeswoman.

The interrogation of several people who are said to have been on the parking deck on Sunday evening is ongoing.

Other witnesses claim to have seen the two young men in the vehicle in the hours before the accident in Essen-Borbeck.

They are said to have been on the road without a license plate.

The investigators are also investigating whether the dilapidated parking garage was properly secured.

Local residents reported in the “Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” that, unlike in the past, the building was no longer secured by a roller shutter at night.

There shouldn't be a barrier either.

The multi-storey car park has been used by young people in the evenings and at night for parties, drinking sessions and risky activities for some time.