VN24 - 1961 vintage Henschel HS140 presumably crashed due to brake failure

VN24 - 02-10-2023 (D/M/Y) - Unna A1 / Germany - A historic tank truck with a Henschel HS140 tractor unit built in 1961, restored down to the smallest detail, crashed on the A1 Freeway near Unna around noon. During emergency braking at the end of a traffic jam, the 70-year-old driver's Semitrailer jackknifed. Presumably due to an operating error, the air hoses of the compressed air brake system were very obviously not connected to the tractor unit in a functional manner. As a result, the tank semi-trailer had no braking effect whatsoever and pushed the tractor unit behind the crash barrier. The vehicle was severely damaged. Fortunately, nobody was injured in this accident. It would have been unthinkable if this truck without brakes had been involved in an accident in front of a school or at a crosswalk. The criminal investigation department and the insurance company must now find out, why the Semitrailer was traveling in this condition.
Note: This is a re-upload of the video with text update. We had obtained the driver's permission on site to show his person, which he would have been allowed to withdraw from us personally. Unfortunately, the driver's niece objected to this and the first video was deleted. This is now the version with the driver made unrecognizable. The fact that we now go into a little more detail about the alleged cause of the accident in the description text has to do with the fact that all verbal agreements made on site, e.g. not to explicitly report on certain facts, are apparently deemed to have been revoked.
++++
Picture material (film/photo) © VN24.nrw
► Order material at [e-mail]
Any publication of the photographic material is subject to a fee; sharing for private, non-commercial purposes within the intended functions of the platform is permitted.
(automatic translation)