Overview
- Munich mayor Dieter Reiter instructed the city’s building department to secure the Donnersbergerstraße tram shelter with bollards after a new collision at the site months after a May crash that killed two people.
- Investigators in Grimma reclassified a nighttime collision as a suspected attack on the driver’s partner; a judge issued a detention order and police recorded a breath alcohol level of 2.2‰.
- In Berlin-Biesdorf, a 19-year-old driver died and a 20-year-old passenger suffered life-threatening injuries when their car left Blumberger Damm and struck several trees; the cause is under investigation.
- On the A43 near Recklinghausen, two cars hit a wind-turbine transport, leaving three people seriously injured; two were freed from a car pinned under the blade and the motorway was closed for more than two hours.
- Police are also probing multiple severe crashes, including two sisters killed in a head-on collision near Wildflecken, an eight-vehicle pileup on the A3 that injured 13 near Wiesbaden-Medenbach, and a suspected tire blowout that caused a fatal rollover on the A24.