Overview

• In Offenbach just after midnight, a 20-year-old Corsa driver ignored a stop signal, lost control, and crashed into three parked cars, while the pursuing patrol car struck a traffic light mast.
• The three city officers in the Offenbach patrol vehicle sustained minor injuries and were taken to hospital; the driver was found hiding nearby and is accused of driving under drugs without a valid license in an unregistered car with mismatched plates.
• In Duisburg in the early hours the previous night, a 20-year-old in a white Mercedes CLA sped through a closed road, ran a red light, and reversed into officers who were trying to stop him, injuring two.
• Officers in Duisburg reported alcohol odor and other irregularities, took multiple blood samples from the suspect, and secured the Mercedes as evidence as proceedings for dangerous interference with road traffic were initiated.
• Both cases remain under active investigation, with authorities appealing for witnesses and estimating several tens of thousands of euros in damage in the Offenbach crash.