Overview
- Police say occupants fled on foot after a rear-end collision on the A4 near Frechen, where explosives were discovered in the vehicle and defused in a controlled blast; sections of the motorway were restricted into the morning.
- Prosecutors opened a case for suspected negligent homicide after a 74-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a lines bus in Puchheim, and they ordered a forensic accident report to determine causation.
- In Buchloe an 84-year-old woman suffered severe injuries after being overrun beside a lines bus she had just exited, and police are investigating the driver on suspicion of negligent bodily harm.
- A 40-ton truck overturned on the A73 in Upper Franconia after hitting a warning trailer, injuring the driver and closing the northbound carriageway for hours, while separate lorry fires led to a right-lane closure on the A14 near Ilberstedt and a full closure on the A44 near Kassel.
- Police in Essen said an autopsy established a causal link between a 67-year-old woman’s October fall in a Ruhrbahn bus and her death on November 4, and the case is now counted as a traffic fatality.