Several Injured as Truck Smashes Into US Military Convoy in German Highway (+Video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A truck ran into a US military vehicle on a highway in Bavaria on Monday, leaving multiple people injured.
Three US army vehicles, including two fuel tankers, were pulled up on the roadside when the articulated truck filled with wood chips smashed into the back of them in Bavaria on Monday.
Multiple people were injured and eight soldiers were sent to the hospital for check-ups for smoke inhalation, DailyMail reported.
Authorities have ruled out a deliberate attack as a possible scenario.
Photos showed the vehicles engulfed in flames as fire crews rushed to tackle the blaze, dousing them in foam and water.
Police said it was not the fuel in the trucks which caught fire but the wood chips in the back of the truck.
A spokesman for the 7th Army Training Command at Grafenwöhr told German newspaper Bild: 'Three US vehicles were on the way from Hohenfels on the motorway towards Grafenwöhr.
'Because they were separated from their escort vehicles, they waited on the side of the road. This is where the crash took place.
'All three US vehicles were totally destroyed. We're lucky that no US personnel were seriously wounded. Eight soldiers were sent to the hospital for preventive medical check-ups.'
The A3 road between Parsberg and Velburg has been shut in both directions.
More than 40,000 members of the US military are stationed in Germany where the Allied forces set up bases after the Second World War.