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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - After a traffic accident, the Mainz fire brigade freed an injured wheelchair user from his vehicle in an elaborate rescue operation.
At the transition from Autobahn 61 to A60, a truck broke down on Thursday due to a technical defect in the brakes.
The driver of a minivan recognized the obstacle too late and drove almost unbraked on the semi-trailer, as the fire department announced.
As a result of the impact, a lock on the wheelchair in which the man was sitting behind the steering wheel of his car could no longer be opened. In order to save him, among other things, the backrest of the wheelchair was removed and the man was looked after by ambulance services and emergency doctors. Eventually he was released from the vehicle and taken to the hospital. Since only one lane was available during the rescue work, a mile-long backlog formed in the evening rush hour.