Limburg (dpa/lhe) - The driver of a small van died in a collision with a truck on the A3 near Limburg. The 46-year-old died on Monday at the scene of the accident, the police said in the evening.
Previously, the man was traveling between the Limburg-Süd and Bad Camberg junctions in the direction of Frankfurt on Monday afternoon. For reasons that were initially unclear, he drove at the end of a traffic jam - presumably without braking - onto a semi-trailer truck that was in the right lane.
The lane was closed for one and a half hours in the direction of Frankfurt, after which one of the three lanes was released. The traffic was backed up over a length of up to 20 kilometers, it said. The freeway was fully reopened around 7:15 p.m.
