- Three US army vehicles, including two fuel tankers, were stopped at roadside
- An articulated truck smashed into the back of one of the vehicles causing blaze
- Multiple people were injured, with eight soldiers taken to hospital for check ups
A truck has smashed into the back of a US military convoy sparking an inferno on a German highway and leaving multiple people injured.
Three US army vehicles, including two fuel tankers, were pulled up on the roadside when the articulated truck filled with wood chips smashed into the back of them in Bavaria on Monday.
Multiple people were injured and eight soldiers were sent to the hospital for check ups for smoke inhalation.
Photos show the vehicles covered in foam after fire crews rushed to tackle the fire. 
Emergency services at the scene after a truck rammed several US military vehicles on the A3 motorway near Parsberg,
US military vehicles are covered in foam after firemen rushed to the crash
Police said it was not the fuel in the trucks which caught fire but the wood chips in the back of the truck.
A spokesman for the 7th Army Training Command at Grafenwöhr told German newspaper Bild: ‘Three US vehicles were on the way from Hohenfels on the motorway towards Grafenwöhr.
‘Because they were separated from their escort vehicles, they waited on the side of the road. This is where the crash took place.
‘All three US vehicles were totally destroyed. We’re lucky that no US personnel were seriously wounded. Eight soldiers were sent to the hospital for preventive medical check-ups.’
The A3 road between Parsberg and Velburg has been shut in both directions.
More than 40,000 members of the US military are stationed in Germany where the Allied forces set up bases after the Second World War.
Originally published in Daily Mail
