Apparently distracted by his cell phone, a driver in the Ravensburg district caused an accident with five injured.
The 28-year-old crashed his car into a traffic jam on the federal highway 30 near Baindt on Friday and pushed three vehicles on top of each other, as the police announced.
The person who caused the accident and two people in the car in front of it were seriously injured.
Baindt - Two other people suffered minor injuries.
They all went to hospitals.
Animal rescue took an injured dog to a veterinary clinic.
dpa