Car crashes into tree: three dead, including two children

Created: 2022-10-24Updated: 2022-10-24 8:22 p.m

The wreck of the car after the accident.

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When a car crashed into a tree, three people died on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia - including a child and an infant.

A passenger was seriously injured and was being treated in a hospital, the police said on Monday evening.

Four people were in the car.

Rheurdt - According to initial findings, the investigators assume that the car wanted to overtake a tractor near Rheurdt-Schaephuysen in the Kleve district on Monday afternoon and went off the road for an unknown reason.

"An unimaginable picture of what the emergency services have to offer," said a police spokeswoman.

Psychosocial support is offered to emergency services.

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