Overview
- A61 in the Rhein-Hunsrück district reopened around midnight after a waste truck overturned and spilled rubbish and fuel, severely injuring the 60-year-old driver and prompting police action against motorists who drove the wrong way through the rescue lane.
- The A8 Albaufstieg toward Munich will be fully closed from Friday 21:00 to Monday 05:00 for pre-winter works, with Autobahn GmbH advising long-range diversions and asking motorists to avoid local shortcuts as holiday traffic builds.
- On the A4 near Hönebach, a truck lost control on a wet curve, broke through the concrete median, seriously injured the driver and forced a full closure that pushed heavy vehicles onto a local road not built for freight, causing blockages.
- An A7 rear-end crash near Dettingen an der Iller left a 21-year-old driver severely injured and spilled cooking oil from a tank truck, requiring specialist cleaning and hours of full closure.
- Police in Lower Saxony attribute a nighttime A2 crash to microsleep by a 19-year-old Audi driver; three people were injured, a criminal investigation was opened and the driver’s license was seized.