Baiersbronn (dpa / lsw) - While driving, a man lost consciousness according to initial findings and crashed his car into a house wall in Baiersbronn (Freudenstadt district).

He was critically injured on Tuesday evening, said a police spokesman.

Rescue workers tried to resuscitate the man and take him to a hospital.

According to the passenger, the driver passed out and drove off the road, the spokesman said.

Witnesses freed him from the car.

The building is not very badly damaged.