Three people were injured, and a fire broke out after a drunk driver rammed into parked vehicles in the German state of Bavaria on Tuesday night.
A massive truck ignored a red light in the town of Fürth, near Nuremberg, hit a car at the intersection, rammed into at least 34 parked vehicles at full speed on a 500-meter stretch of road.
Several cars were badly damaged and caught fire. The out-of-control truck was also alight, with the fire then spreading to a residential building and causing residents to evacuate.
Three people were injured in the crash, including the truck driver, the man driving the car he hit first and a pedestrian.
“It looks like a battlefield” a police spokesperson told Bild, describing the scene of the accident.
The driver of the truck had been arrested by the officers on the spot. He was described as a 50-year-old man from Turkey without a residence permit in Germany.
The man’s breath test revealed that he had been several times above the legal alcohol limit for driving reported RT.
The police are now trying to determine if intoxication was the sole reason for the incident or if the driver had some other motives.
-RT