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Truck skids into oncoming traffic: 13-year-old seriously injured

An ambulance on the road. / Photo: Lino Mirgeler/dpa/Symbolic image
An ambulance on the road. / Photo: Lino Mirgeler/dpa/Symbolic image

A 13-year-old schoolboy was seriously injured when a lorry collided with a car and a minibus near Langenbernsdorf (Zwickau district). The truck skidded into oncoming traffic on the slippery carriageway of the B175 federal highway, according to the Zwickau police on Friday morning. Three other people were slightly injured.

According to police, the 35-year-old driver of the truck left his lane on a downhill bend on Thursday afternoon. The truck then collided with the car of an 80-year-old man and then with the minibus, which was traveling in school traffic.

The slightly injured are a 14-year-old schoolboy, the driver of the minibus and the truck driver. The recovery of the truck was particularly difficult due to the weather and took until Friday morning, the police added. The material damage amounted to around 96,000 euros.

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