포르쉐[porsche] 911 2010형 테스트 드라이버 사망[2009-2월-13]

올해 51세 경력 25년의 포르쉐 911cabrio 드라이버가
아우토반에서 중앙분리대 추돌 사고로 사망사고가 일어났습니다.

드라이버는 현장에서 즉사 했다고 하며 초 고속 주행중
원인 모를 현상에 의해 사고가 났다고 합니다.

사고당시 포르쉐 신형 파라메라 테스트 드라이버와 같이
주행했으나 다행히도 후행하던 파라메라는 사고를 피했다고..

이 문제를 가지고 중앙분리대의 안전성에 대해 논하기도 하지만.
중앙분리대 라는것은 추돌하는 운전자의 보호 목적 보다는.
반대 차선 차량을 보호하며,추돌하는 차량의 즉각적인 정지를 위해
존재하지요[2차 사고 발생원인 제거,타인에게 피해가 안가도록]

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A 51-year-old died in Germany this morning following an accident involving a Porsche 911 cabrio prototype. The victim, a Porsche engineer, was driving the car on the A5 Autobahn when he lost control and slammed into a guard rail.

The one-car accident happened at 2:45am just past the Weiterstadt exit on the motorway. Photos of the scene show the sports car wedged under the barrier, with the rail making contact near where the driver's head and torso would have been.

A spokesman for Porsche said the engineer "was one of the most experienced test drivers." The company representative confirmed that the car was a camouflaged cabrio covered with foil to mask parts of the vehicle's appearance. He also noted that, although it did not rollover, the convertible does not have the same resilience as a coupe.

Police and fire department personnel responded to the scene from nearby Darmstadt. The public prosecutor there has taken charge of the ongoing investigation. The location of the accident was midway between Frankfurt and Heidelberg, in the German province of Hessen.

It is not yet known what caused the accident. Witnesses say the driver, who has worked for the German company for 25 years, was driving a prototype of a new Porsche 991 model at a high rate of speed. That stretch of road does not have a speed limit. He was being followed by a second Porsche testdriver in a camouflaged four-door Porsche Panamera prototype.

That driver successfully evaded the crash, and escaped unharmed. Although the accident did take place at an unusual hour, both drivers were working on a 10pm to 6am shift. An initial damage estimate is said to be several thousands of Euro.