Großefehn (dpa / lni) - A car driver was hit by an approaching truck after an accident in the wreckage of her car and was fatally injured.

The 76-year-old was in Großefehn (Aurich district) on Monday evening when her car came off the right of the road for an unexplained reason, the police said.

The car initially crashed into a tree, threw back onto the street and stopped there, unlit.

A first following car was able to evade.

However, the approaching truck could not brake in time and crashed into the car.

The driver died at the scene of the accident, the truck driver was uninjured.