North Rhine-Westphalia: car rams wheelchair: Senior seriously injured

Mönchengladbach (dpa / lnw) - An 85-year-old driver hit an 86-year-old wheelchair user at a pedestrian crossing in Mönchengladbach for an unknown reason. The senior was thrown out of his electric wheelchair and suffered life-threatening injuries, the police said on Thursday. The man had previously been on a dirt road with his electric wheelchair and wanted to cross a larger road. After the accident on Tuesday afternoon, the badly damaged electric wheelchair was secured for further investigations, the police said.