Overview
- In Berlin-Biesdorf, a 19-year-old driver died and his 20-year-old passenger was critically injured after a high-speed crash into trees on Blumberger Damm, with police accident researchers examining the sequence of events.
- A four-year-old died in hospital after a collision at Munich’s Kreillerstraße, where a Skoda turning left collided with an oncoming BMW, leaving all occupants injured and both cars totaled.
- On the A43 near Recklinghausen, two cars collided with a heavy transport carrying a wind-turbine blade, leaving three people severely injured and forcing firefighters to lift the blade to free trapped occupants.
- Prosecutors in Grimma secured a detention order for a driver after an alleged deliberate hit on his partner, reframing the night-time collision as a serious criminal act under dangerous interference with road traffic.
- An eight-vehicle pileup on the A3 near Wiesbaden injured 13 people and shut the southbound lanes for hours, as a gutachter documented the scene and police worked to determine how the initial loss of control occurred.