VN24 - Kamen / Germany - On Thursday morning (21 November) the driver of a dump truck collided with a gantry sign on the A1 at the height of the Kamener Kreuz with the raised loading area. He was trapped in the cab and seriously injured. According to witnesses, the driver first dumped some soil in a construction site area of the A1 at around 10:20 a.m. With the loading area still raised, he then drove over a separate construction site lane in the direction of Bremen. Here the truck's loading area collided with a overhead sign shortly later. The driver's cab of the dump truck was hit by falling parts, the chassis partially broke through. The 53-year-old driver had to be freed from the truck. A rescue helicopter flew the seriously injured man to a nearby hospital. For the duration of the accident recording and salvage work, a lane in the construction site area had to be closed until 13:00 o'clock.
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21 ноя 2019