Bavaria: 80-year-old driver dies in a head-on collision

Marktredwitz (dpa / lby) - An 80-year-old driver was fatally injured in a head-on collision with two trucks in Upper Franconia.

Bavaria: 80-year-old driver dies in a head-on collision

Marktredwitz (dpa / lby) - An 80-year-old driver was fatally injured in a head-on collision with two trucks in Upper Franconia. He came on Thursday afternoon on the federal highway 303 near Marktredwitz (Wunsiedel district) for unknown reasons on the opposite lane.

As the police reported, he first crashed head-on into a truck. The car then threw itself into the guardrail and then against another truck. The critically injured 80-year-old was taken to a clinic, where he died a short time later. The two truck drivers were unharmed, the passenger in one of the vans suffered minor injuries.