Overview

• On the A2 near Gütersloh, a 36-year-old motorway contractor died and a 55-year-old truck driver was seriously injured after a lorry struck a safety trailer, with the Hannover-bound carriageway closed for hours as police accident specialists documented the scene.
• In Hamburg, a collision between two city buses injured 20 people, including schoolchildren; four adults were seriously hurt, nine patients were transported, and the Osdorfer Landstraße later reopened after a large emergency response.
• In Eschweiler near Aachen, a 72-year-old driver crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a school bus, leaving 13 people injured—ten of them children—with seven children and two adults taken to hospitals for further evaluation.
• Police in Oldenburg are investigating a suspected familicide after finding a man, his partner, and two children dead in a house in Osternburg along with a presumed weapon, with identities and motive not yet disclosed.
• In Brunsbüttel, a mother and her partner (both 24) were remanded in custody on suspicion of murdering their four-month-old daughter by neglect, as prosecutors pursue a homicide case alleging death from undernourishment.