Zarrentin am Schaalsee (dpa/mv) - A driver was seriously injured in a rear-end collision on the Autobahn 24 near Zarrentin am Schaalsee (Ludwigslust-Parchim district). The 82-year-old man's car crashed into the car in front on Thursday evening for initially unknown reasons, the police said. The force of the collision threw the car in front into another car on the right. The person who caused the accident was taken to a hospital. The drivers of the other two cars were unharmed, it said on Friday.
The collision of the cars, two of them expensive, resulted in damage of around 220,000 euros. The Autobahn had to be closed for several hours in the direction of Hamburg.
