Lauter-Bernsbach (dpa/sn) - In a traffic accident in the Ore Mountains with three cars and a subsequent explosion of a tank, nine people were injured on Saturday evening - four of them seriously. As the police announced on Sunday, a 35-year-old in Lauter-Bernsbach drove his car in a one-way street against the direction of travel and collided with another car at an intersection. The violent impact threw him into another car.
Operating fluids leaked from the liquid gas and fuel tanks of one of the vehicles. When another vehicle drove by, both tanks exploded. A fourth vehicle and the facades of the adjacent house facades were damaged by flying vehicle parts. Eight people in the vehicles and a first responder were injured.
