Overview
- Police say a car on the B4 near Braunschweig collided head‑on, broke through a bridge rail and fell into the Mittellandkanal, leaving three occupants dead and two people in the oncoming vehicle seriously and life‑threateningly injured.
- Minutes before the Braunschweig crash, the vehicle had ignored a police stop signal on the A2 and was reported speeding, passing on the right and touching cars; five vehicles were ultimately listed as involved and no identities were released.
- Divers recovered the bodies and recovery of the submerged wreck required specialist equipment, with the B4 closed and canal traffic halted as prosecutors and forensic experts secured evidence.
- Separate fatal incidents since Oct. 23 include a 79‑year‑old killed in a two‑car crash in Ipsheim, a 22‑year‑old firefighter who died after another driver’s failed overtake in Neunburg vorm Wald, and a 68‑year‑old pedestrian struck by a light truck near Twistringen.
- In other severe cases, a 25‑year‑old died in a Ford Mustang after a frontal collision on the B203 near Heide as DEKRA documented the scene, and a 23‑year‑old was killed in a rollover in the Deggendorf district, with vehicles seized and reconstructions underway.