An excavator avoided an oncoming car in St. Ingbert (Saarpfalz district) and rolled over. According to initial investigations, the 26-year-old excavator driver wanted to avoid a collision with a car that was coming towards him on a bend in his lane on Monday afternoon. According to the police, the rollover occurred when the vehicle swerved onto the adjacent green strip.

The driver of the eleven-ton excavator was not injured. Damage to the excavator was at least four digits high. The unknown driver, who had violated the right-hand drive, committed a hit-and-run.

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