A man was hit by a truck and suffered life-threatening injuries in an accident on the Autobahn 14 near Halle on Sunday. He had been standing in his car on the hard shoulder between the Halle-Trotha and -Tornau junctions and stepped onto the road after getting out, according to a police spokeswoman. The truck hit him there. It is not yet known whether he had stopped due to a breakdown or whether there was another reason.
