Overview

• Lower Saxony: In Steddorf, a car left the L124 and overturned, killing the driver; a woman, a child and a teenager suffered severe injuries and were flown to hospitals as police documented extensive evidence.
• Baden-Württemberg: A pileup at a traffic jam end on the A81 near Sindelfingen injured five, including two seriously, and shut the motorway for two hours with long queues as more than 70 responders and a helicopter attended.
• Saxony-Anhalt: The Halle public prosecutor is investigating the bus driver over a possible red‑light violation in the April 29 bus–tram collision that injured nine, while proceedings against the tram driver have been discontinued.
• Bavaria: In Starnberg, a 73-year-old motorist struck a 75-year-old man in Söcking causing severe head trauma, and a separate Wangen crash left a 57-year-old Vespa rider badly hurt after a collision with a turning trike; both victims were airlifted and experts were called in.
• Burgenlandkreis: On the B2 near Elsteraue, a 65-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a 76-year-old driver at night, prompting a roughly five-hour closure as police investigate the sequence and cause.