Overview
- Munich ordered bollards at the Donnersbergerstraße tram shelter after a second vehicle hit the stop six months after a fatal May crash, with the mayor citing passenger safety as the priority.
- Prosecutors in Grimma secured custody for a 30-year-old driver after a night-time collision was reclassified from an accident to an alleged attack; the injured partner remains in a coma and a breath test showed 2.2‰ alcohol.
- Police in Göppingen are investigating a suspected illegal street race after a 19-year-old crashed into a pedestrian signal and a building; no one was injured, the driver’s licence was seized, and witnesses are sought.
- Multiple fatal incidents were recorded since the weekend, including two deaths in a head-on crash on the B45 near Niddatal, a 19-year-old killed in Berlin-Biesdorf with a passenger critically hurt, a fatal rollover on the A24 linked to a tire blowout, and a child’s death after a Munich intersection collision.
- Courts and police deployed forensic experts, accident-research teams and drones to reconstruct causes at several scenes, with roads closed for hours during evidence preservation and rescues.