Spectacular accident on the Neckar: Tractor with baler crashes from ferry and drowned in the Neckar - Tractor driver is saved - Hours of recovery - Several fire brigades and DLRG units in action on 30.07.2017

On Sunday, 30.07.2017, at 15:50, a 22-year-old leader of a tractor-trailer team with an attached straw baler wanted to reach the ramp of the local ferry in Neckarsteinach on the Hessian side.

For reasons that are still unclear, the attached straw baler first rolled into the water from the already departing ferry. Driver, tractor and trailer sink in the approx. 4m deep Neckar. When the tractor driver noticed, she left the sinking vehicle. A ferry member jumped into the water, trying to save the woman. Both people were then able to save themselves on the ferry, which then brought them to the other shore, where medical help was already waiting. Fortunately, both remained unharmed except for shock.