Triftern (dpa / lby) – A 45-year-old man died in a car accident in Triftern (Rottal-Inn district). The 61-year-old driver of the car was seriously injured, police said. The vehicle left the road on Saturday evening for reasons that have not yet been clarified, rolled over and ended up on the roof in an adjacent field. The 45-year-old passenger was probably thrown out of the vehicle by the rollover and died at the scene of the accident despite attempts to revive him. The driver was freed from the wreckage by firefighters and taken to the hospital.

The police initiated investigations into, among other things, negligent homicide.