Overview

• Cologne prosecutors have seized the 16-year-old’s vehicle and phone for blood testing in a negligent-homicide probe after four youths died in the Kürten crash
• Ingolstadt authorities confirmed functioning light signals at Manching’s unguarded crossing and are investigating why the car driver passed a red warning, killing two 23-year-olds
• A3 near Erlangen has been fully reopened after a lorry tipped over in a construction zone, causing injuries and a prolonged closure for cleanup and safety checks
• A2 near Graz resumed traffic following a 33-vehicle pileup triggered by a ruptured diesel tank on a truck that left around 28 people injured
• Munich criminal police have taken over the workplace-safety inquiry after a 43-year-old construction worker was fatally crushed under an overturned forklift