The accident has already claimed three lives. The 39-year-old mother who was driving the car and the 87-year-old ghost driver also were killed. Two other children (9 and 7) from the manageress severely injured.

The spookrijder, a 87-year old man from Schin op Geul, picked up at the John F. Kennedylaan not the driveway in Heerlen, but the A79 exit. The man drove 4.5 kilometers against the traffic in the direction of Maastricht to Heerlen. At the height of climbing he collided head on with a passenger car. In it were the wife and three children