Driver wraps car around lamppost

Two people were injured on Tuesday afternoon after their car veered off the road and crashed head-on into a lamppost.

The incident happened at about 4.45pm at a roundabout in Itzig on the road Allée de la Jeunesse Sacrifiée 1940-1945.

The car is reported to have skidded at the roundabout, swerving off the road before crashing head-on and with force into a lamppost and sliding into a ditch.

The two occupants were slightly injured in the crash but the car was completely destroyed.

Rescue workers quickly arrived at the scene and free the two victims before they were transported to hospital in the capital.

How or why the accident happened is not known at this stage.

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