A number of Scotland football fans are understood to have been hurt in a crash outside a German airport.
Emergency services are understood to have rushed to the scene at Weeze Airport following the smash on Thursday evening (June 13). Five fans are understood to have been injured, two of them seriously The Record reports.
In total four ambulances are understood to have attended the scene, around 70km outside of Düsseldorf.
The same incident reports that the five Scots had rented a car after arriving at the airport, flying from Edinburgh ahead of the Euros. Shortly after collecting the car they were involved in a head-on collision with a Mercedes, with the Record reporting that the incident occurred on the wrong side of the road.
A source told the Record: “The fans had just arrived from Edinburgh and had hired a rental car.
“They appear to have gotten confused and driven on the left side of the road, in Germany we drive on the left side.
“There was a huge emergency response with ambulances parked waiting to take casualties to hospital. It looked like all five in the car were injured, with two of them appearing to be seriously hurt.”
The news comes as Scotland fans flock to Germany ahead of the Tartan Army’s opener against the hosts. Thousands of Scottish fans have descended on the Bavarian city of Munich where the match is set to take place.
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