Overview

• Police say a 25-year-old unlawfully overtook on the right on the A3 near Frankfurt, triggering a chain collision that sent a car into oncoming traffic, killed a 20-year-old man, a 21-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, and damaged nine vehicles.
• The A3 was closed in both directions into early Monday, a forensic expert and a police helicopter documented the scene, and the suspected driver was uninjured and initially released after police measures.
• In a separate case at the Berlin/Brandenburg border, a 27-year-old allegedly bit off a passenger’s fingertip, injured two pedestrians, then fatally struck a cyclist before being arrested.
• The Staatsanwaltschaft Potsdam says it will seek custody with charges that include completed homicide, while investigators test for alcohol and drugs and plan to extract electronic driving data from the vehicle.
• In Schwerte, an electric car hit a tree and caught fire, killing a 43-year-old driver and two nine-year-old children as another nine-year-old escaped; police are probing a suspected overtaking maneuver and have not officially confirmed the vehicle make.