Welcome our newest member to Promote Kingman, Route 66 Association of Germany. We are a private interest organization dedicated to maintaining and rebuilding the historic Route 66 in the US.
Although the road has officially disappeared from American road maps since 1987, the “Historic Route 66” is a true renaissance and is more popular with locals and especially with foreign tourists than ever before. Little by little, old dineries, petrol stations, motels and other tourist highlights are being restored and put into operation along the over 4,000 km long route from Chicago to Los Angeles.
The initiative to found this voluntary and voluntary association took place in 2011 by Wolfgang and Anja Werz from Mössingen (Baden-Württemberg). The association now has around 100 members from all over Germany, who have mainly informed and registered on these pages because they want to support this idea with a small obulus in the form of their membership fee or simply find our association work just fine.
Visit them online at www.germany66.org
Want to become a member? Check it out https://promotekingman.com/members/
The Route 66 Chamber of Commerce deeply regrets the loss of two of your countrymen who were bicycling in Kansas on the fifteenth of May. This tragic accident has stunned the Route 66 community from the entire length of the Mother Road, and also around the world. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to the families of these innocent visitors to America, and the Chamber is available to answer any questions you may have.
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LOCAL NEWS UPDATE: Friday 11th. 2018
The Kansas Highway Patrol has released the identities of the three people involved in Tuesday’s fatality accident on Route 66 outside Galena, Kansas.
According to the KHP crash report, 23-year-old Alyssa Parker, of Shawnee, Kansas, was the driver of a 2013 Chrysler Town & Country that hit two cyclists from behind while all were traveling westbound in the right lane of Route 66 a little after 11 a.m. Tuesday.
The two men who were killed in the accident were both German citizens riding bicycles along the highway. Harry Jung, 74, of Steinfurth, Germany, just north of Frankfurt, and Heinz Gerd Buchel, 71, of nearby Bad Nauheim, died in the crash. The patrol report says both men’s next of kin have been notified through the German consulate.
KHP Trooper Rick Wingate said Thursday afternoon that the investigation into the cause of the crash is continuing, and that the patrol does not yet know the circumstances that caused the crash.
“As to the reason why and how and all that stuff, that information probably won’t be released (beforehand), that’ll probably be in the report itself,” Wingate said.
Investigators also do not know if Jung and Buchel were in the United States to tour the Mother Road or if they were part of a larger group of tourists, Wingate said. The patrol is continuing to work with the German consulate in Kansas City to get details, he said.
Trooper Tyler Alley, the incident’s primary investigator, has previously said that state law permitted the men to be cycling in the lanes they were in at the time they were hit. The cyclists were pronounced dead at the scene and autopsies were conducted by Frontier Forensics Midwest of Kansas City.