A driver of a car was injured on the Europaweg (A270) in Nuenen on Monday evening. He drove his car off the road and collided with the guardrail, after which the car caught fire. The victim is 20, comes from Helmond and was brought to Radboudumc in Nijmegen with severe burns, the police reported when asked.
The driver was said to have been approachable shortly after the accident.
Road closed
The man drove from Eindhoven to Helmond. It is not clear what caused the car to run off the road. The road to Helmond was closed for a few hours after the accident.
According to a bystander, the driver was traveling at high speed on the road and overtaking from the right. Not long after that, meters high flames came from the car, which had ended up in the central reservation.
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