Klötze (dpa/sa) – A man was critically injured in a traffic accident in Klötze (Altmarkkreis Salzwedel). The man’s car went off the road on Tuesday morning for an unknown reason and hit a tree, the police said. A first responder freed him from the smoking wreckage before the car caught fire.
Rescue workers took the life-threateningly injured man to a Magdeburg clinic by helicopter, it said. Firefighters then extinguished the fire. According to information from Tuesday, the identity of the accident victim is not yet known beyond doubt.