Overview

• Police say a Ford Transit used as a schoolbus in Kammerstein tipped onto its side after the 52-year-old driver likely suffered a medical emergency, injuring four primary-school children and others as first aiders performed successful resuscitation.
• On the A2 near Braunschweig, a lorry left its lane and burst into flames after a suspected technical defect, the driver escaped, damage is put at about €500,000, and one parallel lane is expected to stay closed until Saturday evening.
• Five people were hurt in a five-vehicle collision on the B71 near Bremervörde, where two motorists were extricated and the federal road remained shut for hours during rescue and cleanup.
• A frontal crash on the FÜ22 near Roßtal left three people partly severely injured, including an 18-year-old who was freed from his car, as investigators work to determine why one vehicle entered oncoming traffic.
• Elsewhere, police reported an alcohol-related head-on in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, a six-vehicle A60 pileup near Mainz that produced a six-kilometer backup and two minor injuries, and in Hamm an ongoing search for a white SUV after a cyclist was seriously hurt.