A 43-year-old man from Loosbroek died in an accident on Monday at the end of the afternoon on the DAF test track in Sint-Oedenrode. According to a police spokesperson, the victim, a DAF employee, made a test drive with a truck ‘and something went completely wrong’.
No other vehicles were involved in the accident, police said. The truck also did not catch fire, the police said when asked. The victim was alone in the truck.
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The Labor Inspectorate is investigating what exactly happened at the test site on Lieshoutseweg. The Inspectorate also called in the help of specialists from the police traffic accident analysis.
Due to the seriousness of the accident, several emergency services were called. An air ambulance also landed nearby. New trucks from the Eindhoven truck factory are tested on the DAF test track, among other things.
This video that can be found on YouTube gives an impression of the DAF test track in Sint-Oedenrode: