This is the second time in succeeding months (in the other accident a Porsche driver died when testing 998 Cabriolet prototype) that an accident involving test vehicles took place on Friday the Thirteenth, a day that many superstitiously consider a day of bad luck.

This month the accident happened in Autobahn A31 in Germany between the exits Gescher and Legden in the direction of Emden involving a Wiesmann GT prototype. No one was killed on this one, unlike the one that happened last month involving a Porsche prototype where the driver was not as lucky. The report says that the Wiesmann was travelling on the left lane of the freeway when a red BMW E30 changed lanes from right to left but it did not see the Wiesmann on its left. When the Wiesmann saw the Bimmer, it tried to avoid a collision and veered further left into a guard rail which it tried to avoid, too. When the Wiesmann swung back to the right a truck was already there and it smashed into it. To make matters worse, a smaller truck that was pulling a trailer along could not stop in time and it plowed into the Wiesmann making it a total write-off. There was another car involved in the accident into which the smaller truck also smashed. Two people were reportedly injured and authorities are looking for witnesses and for the BMW which did not stop after the incident took place. The damage caused by the accident is around €150,000 according to some estimates.

[source worldcarfans]

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