Mourning for 21-year-old

Advent drama: Death on the way home from Christmas party

Touching: friends set up a memorial for Thomas F. at the scene of the accident.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Imre Antal, Facebook)

Mourning reigns in Hainfeld, Lilienfeld district: Thomas (21) was hit by a car in the dark - the young mechanic was killed instantly!

Dozens of candles - each one an expression of deep grief - flicker next to the gray ribbon of federal highway 18 in the district of Lilienfeld. Sobbing, friends of the mechanic, who was so popular and cheerful in the small town, keep passing by the site of the tragic accident. They spontaneously erected a touching memorial for Tom just a few hours after the terrible accident.

Friends of the victim light candles at the scene of the accident.(Bild: Imre Antal)

Driver overlooked pedestrian
The 21-year-old had set off home on foot towards Kaumberg on Saturday morning after his company's festive Christmas party. There, his loved ones waited in vain for their Thomas. They are plunged into a sea of grief at Christmas. Because his life was extinguished in the darkness when a 48-year-old driver from Hungary overlooked the young pedestrian. The victim was thrown to the ground and injured so severely that he died instantly, despite the courageous emergency medical intervention.