Overview
- Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter directed the city’s building department to install bollards at the Donnersbergerstraße tram shelter after a second crash there in six months.
- In Berlin-Biesdorf, a 19-year-old driver died and a 20-year-old passenger was critically injured in a high-speed crash; a police accident-research team is reconstructing the events.
- In Munich’s Berg am Laim, a four-year-old boy died after a collision at Kreillerstraße, with witnesses reporting a red-light violation by a speeding BMW and a technical expert report ordered.
- On the A3 near Wiesbaden-Medenbach, eight vehicles collided, injuring 13 and closing the autobahn for hours, while on the A4 near Görlitz a motorist died after striking the end of a traffic jam.
- Prosecutors in Grimma secured an arrest warrant after reclassifying a nighttime collision as an alleged attempted murder, saying the driver recorded about 2.2‰ blood alcohol and the victim remains in a coma.