At 5:30 p.m., a 50-year-old driver drove his automotive and a horse-drawn carriage by means of Obersteinmauer and turned from the primary avenue, or Riedterstrasse, onto Bächserstrasse. For causes nonetheless unknown, the automobile collided with a two-year-old boy at a pedestrian crossing. The boy suffered severe accidents from the collision and died on the scene regardless of resuscitation measures.
Specialists from the Zurich cantonal police, the Zurich Forensic Institute and the Zurich Forensic Drugs Institute secured traces from the positioning. The analysis of the reason for the accident and additional investigations are carried out by the Zurich cantonal police and the Winterthur/Unterland public prosecutor’s workplace.
The Bülach hospital rescue service offered emergency medical care and resuscitation. A rescue helicopter from the Alpine Air Ambulance was additionally in use. Family and people concerned had been cared for by emergency chaplains in addition to employees of the Zurich cantonal police care staff and employees of Care Canton Zurich. The bottom hearth division organised visitors management and closed the intersection within the village centre. A patrol from the Bülach metropolis police supported the cantonal police in organising the harm website.
Anybody who can present details about the circumstances of the accident is requested to contact the Zurich Cantonal Police, Bülach Site visitors Base, phone 058 648 63 90.