Overview

• On the A6 near Kaiserslautern, an Audi S8 and a VW Golf collided and burned, leaving three Golf occupants dead and the 46-year-old Audi driver hospitalized.
• Berlin–Teltow: a 27-year-old driver was detained after two collisions in close succession, with a cyclist killed on the Mauerweg and two pedestrians in Berlin seriously injured.
• Investigators took a blood sample from the detained driver and inspected the vehicle, with lab results pending and no confirmed medical or psychological impairment reported by police.
• At the RiderMan race in Bad Dürrheim, mass crashes injured about 70 participants, up to 20 seriously, prompting the event’s cancellation and a large rescue response including four helicopters; external interference in the race was ruled out.
• In Hann. Münden, an 18-year-old driving a VW Golf at excessive speed skidded into a glass bus shelter, injuring four youths, two of them seriously, while bystanders were not harmed.