A 40-year-old German from the nearby state of Rhineland-Palatinate was detained and in a hospital after being injured, State Interior Minister Thomas Strobl of Baden-Württemberg, where Mannheim is based, told German news agency dpa.
Police would not immediately characterize the incident as an attack. In a statement Monday night they wrote that “at this stage of the investigation, no political background is assumed.”
Cars have been used as deadly weapons in several acts of violence in recent months in Germany.
Just two weeks ago, 2 people were killed and more than three dozen injured when a car rammed a large throng of people in Munich.
A 24-year-old Afghan man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker was arrested, and prosecutors said he appeared to have an Islamic terrorist motive.
