A truck tipped on its side on Tuesday morning on Autobahn 1 in the area of a construction site near Bramsche (Osnabrück district) and the driver was seriously injured.
For reasons that were initially unexplained, the truck came off the road to the right and then fell on its side, as a police spokeswoman said.
The driver was rescued by the emergency services and came to the hospital in an ambulance.
Bramsche - According to initial findings, the truck had loaded sausage and meat products.
Traffic between the Bramsche and Neuenkirchen-Vörden junctions in the direction of Bremen was already slow after the accident, and it has been jammed for up to eight kilometers in the meantime.
For the recovery, a full closure of both lanes is likely to be necessary, as it can only be realized with two cranes, it said.
dpa