Stadtlengsfeld (dpa / th) - Two young men were killed in a traffic accident in the Wartburg district on Christmas Day.

As the Thuringian state police announced on Friday, the accident occurred in the morning on Landstrasse 1022 between Stadtlengsfeld and Dietlas for an unexplained cause.

The car with the 20-year-old driver and an 18-year-old passenger crashed head-on into a tree.

Both men died at the accident site, it was said.

The highway was temporarily closed.