Car ends up beneath truck trailer in crash on A12

A car collided with a semi-trailer truck on the A12 near Innsbruck on Thursday evening, leaving the car’s front crushed and its driver lightly injured, ORF Tirol reports.

Police said initial information indicated that the Austrian driver struck the truck at about 8:45 p.m. near the Innsbruck-West exit on a rain-soaked road. The car went under the trailer.

Rescue workers took the driver to an Innsbruck hospital. One lane of the Inntal motorway was fully closed while the wreckage was recovered.

Police are investigating how the car ended up beneath the trailer. The Red Cross, an emergency doctor, an ambulance, firefighters, police and Asfinag crews attended the scene.