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Coburg (dpa / lby) - In an accident on the Coburg - Suhl motorway, five people were injured on Monday afternoon, including two children.

As the Coburg police announced, a family man had stopped his car at Lautertal in a right turn on the hard shoulder.

When he pulled back onto the autobahn, a van drove into the rear of the car, which was still moving slowly.

The force of the impact threw it into the ditch.

"The occupants, including two 7 and 9 year old children, were freed from the seriously deformed vehicle by first aiders."

The A73 was temporarily closed between the Coburg and Eisfeld-Süd junctions, after which traffic was diverted past the accident site on a lane.

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