Overview
- On the A3 near Wiesbaden-Medenbach, an eight-vehicle pileup injured 13 people, three seriously, and shut the southbound motorway for hours as police and a crash expert examined the scene.
- A frontal collision near Wildflecken in Lower Franconia killed two sisters aged 16 and 19, with a prosecutor ordering an expert report to reconstruct the cause.
- In Munich’s Berg am Laim, a 37-year-old turning left in a Skoda collided with a BMW, leaving a four-year-old passenger fatally injured and prompting an extended closure of Kreillerstraße.
- On the A43 by Recklinghausen, two cars collided in the vicinity of a heavy transport carrying a wind-turbine blade, leaving three people seriously hurt as firefighters lifted the blade to free trapped occupants.
- Further fatalities were confirmed in separate crashes in Niddatal on the B45, where two drivers died after a head-on collision, and in Berlin-Biesdorf, where a 19-year-old was killed after striking trees.