Leubas accident
The Leubas accident describes the collapse of the motorway bridge under construction over the Leubas in Kempten (Allgäu) . On April 30, 1974, a total of nine people were killed. 13 were seriously injured.
course
On the morning of April 30, 1974, construction workers were busy concreting a bridge under construction which was to lead the federal motorway 7 near the Kempten district of Leubas over the stream of the same name . At around 6.45 a.m., when 140 cubic meters of concrete had already been poured, the falsework of the middle section of the bridge suddenly collapsed. 22 workers were pulled down and spilled by the concrete in the stream bed below. Within a few minutes, around 800 rescue workers were at the scene of the accident. During the rescue, firefighters had to repeatedly pour water over the accident site to delay the hardening of the concrete. Three workers were discovered hours later, they survived in an air bubble.
Casualties
Three people died in the collapse, and six more later died from injuries sustained in the accident. A memorial plaque attached to a pillar below the bridge commemorates the event. The names of the victims are entered on this: three German construction workers as well as four from Turkey, a Yugoslav and an Austrian died. You worked as a guest worker on the construction site.
Legal processing
The accident was followed by a protracted and sometimes controversial hearing of evidence. In December 1976 the Kempten Regional Court sentenced three engineers from two Munich construction companies to fines and eight months in prison for negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm. The judgment was finally confirmed by the Federal Court of Justice in January 1978 .
Web links
- The Leubas disaster 40 years ago killed nine people . All-in, online portal of the Allgäuer Zeitung , April 30, 2014
- Collapse of the Leubas Bridge on a private site about bridges worldwide
Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 4.4 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 30.7 ″ E