Baden-Württemberg: Car on fire after a head-on collision: driver dead

Jesingen/Holzmaden (dpa/lsw) - The driver died in a head-on collision between a car and a truck on Landstraße 1200 between Jesingen and Holzmaden (Esslingen district). For reasons that are still unclear, he got his vehicle into the oncoming lane on Wednesday morning, said a spokeswoman for the Reutlingen police. The car caught fire as a result of the collision. The driver died at the scene of the accident. Both lanes of the country road were closed on Wednesday morning. The police spokeswoman said it was not yet possible to estimate how long the full closure would last.