The incident occurred on Monday, June 21. Volunteer firefighters from Różyniec:

4:41 a.m. – dispatch to an accident on the A4, kilometer 55, toward Zgorzelec.

They added:

Upon arriving at the scene, it turned out that a passenger car had hit the back of a truck and stopped against the crash barriers separating the lanes of the motorway.

The operation involved firefighters from JRG Bolesławiec (2 units), OSP Różyniec and OSP Krzyżowa.

Update: 2021-06-21 10:22

The driver of the Ford passenger car, a 25-year-old man from Silesia, hit the trailer of a stationary DAF truck. Fortunately, no one was injured.

The driver responsible for the collision was completely drunk (2 per mille blood alcohol). The man was arrested; he faces up to two years in prison.