Polish PM flown to Warsaw for further checks after car crash


Polish Prime minister Beata Szydlo speaks during a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Warsaw, Poland February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo suffered bruising in a car crash on Friday and was being flown from southern Poland to a Warsaw hospital for what her spokesman described as routine checks.

TV footage showed her car had hit a tree, and a police spokesman said her driver had broken a leg and his pelvis.

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