Krefeld (dpa / lnw) - In a serious traffic accident in the parking lot of a rest stop on the A57 near Krefeld, a 37-year-old driver was killed on Thursday morning.

As the police in Düsseldorf announced, the man from Mönchengladbach had gotten his car under the rear of a parked truck for reasons that were still unexplained.

He was fatally injured in the process.

The police are now looking for witnesses to clarify the exact course of the accident.