31 vehicles damaged after truck driver rams cars in Germany
Firefighters work at the site of an accident on early February 9, 2022 in Fuerth, southern Germany, after a truck ploughed into a row of cars, setting some of them on fire.(Photo by OSSWALD/NEWS5/AFP via Getty Images)
BERLIN - An intoxicated truck driver rammed his vehicle into parked cars after ignoring a red light in southern Germany, shoving cars up against buildings and causing some of them to catch fire, police said.
Three people were slightly injured and 31 vehicles damaged in the incident in Fuerth, just outside Nuremberg, on Tuesday evening.
The truck driver first skipped a red light, touching a car that was at a crossroads in the process, and carried on without stopping, according to a police statement. Shortly afterward, the truck rammed several parked cars and pushed them forward, some of them into the walls of buildings.
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The collisions caused several cars, the facade of a house and the truck itself to catch fire. The house was evacuated.
The driver, a 50-year-old Turkish citizen with no permanent residence in Germany, was arrested at the scene, police said. A breath alcohol test showed that he was several times above the limit for driving, they added.
The truck driver, the driver of the car he touched at the red light and a passerby were slightly injured.