Thuringia: meat truck overturned on country road: driver injured

Meiningen / Erfurt (dpa / th) - A truck loaded with meat crashed into a tree on the country road between Meiningen and the state border with Bavaria and overturned. In the accident on Wednesday night in the Henneberg district, rescue workers had to free the driver from the driver's cab, according to the situation center of the Ministry of the Interior in Erfurt. As a result, he was injured and taken to the hospital. The driver stated that he was blinded by the headlights of an oncoming car and therefore left the lane to the right. The exact cause of the accident has yet to be determined, it said. The road was completely blocked at times.