Weinstadt (dpa / lsw) – A driver was thrown out of his car in Weinstadt (Rems-Murr district) after he hit the trailer of a tractor. The 78-year-old was seriously injured on Tuesday afternoon and was flown to a clinic in a rescue helicopter, the police said on Wednesday.

The man crashed into the trailer for initially unknown reasons. He then lost control of his car and collided with the trailer again. The driver’s door was ripped off and the man was thrown from the car. The exact course of the accident had not yet been finally clarified.