Overview
- Police say a 33-year-old driving the wrong way on the A46 between Wanlo and Erkelenz-Ost collided head-on with a 47-year-old whose death was later confirmed, and the suspect’s condition is now stable after both were cut from their cars.
- Blood samples were taken from the A46 wrong-way driver and his licence was secured as officers examine possible alcohol involvement and review evidence gathered during a hours-long closure that lasted until early afternoon toward Heinsberg.
- Near Weilheim, a 59-year-old cyclist died after being struck and overrun; prosecutors opened a negligent homicide investigation into the 71-year-old driver, ordered a forensic reconstruction and a blood draw, and secured the vehicles.
- On the B27 near Schwenningen, a 21-year-old motorist died in a frontal crash that left a 53-year-old delivery-van driver seriously injured, with an accident expert called to clarify the sequence and the road shut for several hours.
- In separate incidents, a Hamburg patrol car headed to a knife attack collided with other vehicles leaving five people lightly hurt, and in Deggingen a Mercedes fleeing a police stop hit a Mini head-on, seriously injuring three as the car caught fire; expert analyses have been initiated.