Overview

• A 36-year-old e-scooter rider was killed in Dortmund when an 18-year-old driver under drug influence lost control; the suspect was arrested and remains under police guard as inquiries continue.
• Berlin state security is probing a 20-year-old police trainee accused of racially insulting and assaulting a 49-year-old man at Alexanderplatz, with both criminal charges and disciplinary measures pending.
• Traffic police have opened inquiries into two multi-vehicle collisions that injured eight people on the A3 near Erlangen and four others in a crash between an ambulance and a Jaguar on Düsseldorf’s Cecilienallee.
• Criminal investigators in Ingolstadt are examining the death of a 27-year-old construction worker who fell six meters when his forklift plunged over a demolition edge.
• Authorities are also looking into other cases involving unlicensed or impaired drivers, including a stolen-motorcycle crash in Dresden, a high-speed chase that damaged police cars on the A81 and a drunk driver’s collision with a tractor near Freising.