North Rhine-Westphalia: car crashes into tree: three people injured

Ochtrup (dpa / lnw) - When a car crashed into a tree in Ochtrup on Tuesday evening, three people were critically injured.

North Rhine-Westphalia: car crashes into tree: three people injured

Ochtrup (dpa / lnw) - When a car crashed into a tree in Ochtrup on Tuesday evening, three people were critically injured. According to the police, the vehicle with the three occupants was on the L510 in the direction of Ochtrup in the Steinfurt district when it overtook another car shortly before reaching the city, got off the road, broke through a fence and crashed into the tree. The injured were taken to nearby hospitals.

The accident recording continued in the evening, the exact cause of the accident and other details were initially unclear. The driver of the overtaken car was no longer there when the emergency services arrived. The Steinfurt police asks him or her to contact the investigators urgently.