A police report released on Tuesday indicates that David E., who crashed his Skoda Octavia into a church roof 23 feet off the ground in January, was traveling almost three times the legal speed limit. He had also been drinking.

It was an accident that left everybody in Germany scratching their heads. How on earth could a Skoda Octavia station wagon end up stuck in the roof of a church seven meters (23 feet) off the ground?

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The recipe, in the form of a police report on the accident, came on Tuesday. First, have a drink or two. Then speed through the middle of a small village in the wrong traffic lane at almost three times the legal speed limit. The rest is just luck.

That, at least, is how David E. ended up crashing into the roof of the village church in the small eastern German town of Limbach-Oberfrohna in late January. The 23-year-old was seriously injured in the crash. According to Dr. Antje Dietsch, the spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Zwickau, the young man suffered numerous broken bones including a fractured pelvis…

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