Overview

• Three rural head-on collisions on the PA 7 near Passau, the B311 near Riedlingen and the B14 near Pommelsbrunn resulted in three fatalities and multiple injuries.
• A mass pile-up of 14 vehicles on the A1 near Hagen in rainy conditions injured eight people and shut the autobahn for hours.
• A 40-tonne meat lorry overturned in a construction zone on the A9 near Feucht, prompting an overnight full closure and a complex, hours-long recovery operation by THW crews.
• A rear-end collision in Kreis Heidenheim caused a tractor to overturn, ejecting a four-year-old boy and injuring another child and two adults, with a technical expert now examining the crash.
• In Cologne, a driver who tested positive for cocaine after evading police ran a red light and collided with another vehicle, injuring all five occupants, including a one-year-old child.