Overview

• Around 2:00 a.m., a 62-year-old driving a Toyota left the B190 between Salzwedel and Pretzier and struck a tree head-on.
• Firefighters extricated the trapped driver, who was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
• Police said the crash cause is unclear; the Toyota was towed after about €10,000 in damage, and the B190 was fully closed for roughly two hours.
• At about 11:20 a.m. in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, an uprooted street tree fell across Auf dem Dudel and heavily damaged two parked vehicles.
• Police cordoned the area while firefighters cut the tree into pieces, traffic reopened shortly after 1 p.m., and the city is examining when the tree was last inspected and why it toppled.