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Erfurt (dpa / th) - A 71-year-old car driver hit a tree in the Sömmerda district and was seriously injured.

The woman had left the road on the road between Buttstädt and Rudersdorf (Sömmerda district) for an unexplained cause, the police said on Thursday morning.

The driver trapped in her car was freed by rescue workers on Wednesday and taken to a hospital in a rescue helicopter.

The police have started the investigation, it said.

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