Overview

• On the A2 near Kloster Lehnin, a car broke through a guardrail late Tuesday, tumbled down an embankment and left one person dead, identified by police as an 18-year-old who, according to initial findings, lacked a driver’s license.
• Congestion from the A2 fatality led to a separate rear-end crash in which a transporter struck a lorry, leaving one person in life-threatening condition before the left lane reopened in the early morning.
• A deadly collision on the A8 near Bad Reichenhall killed a 65-year-old passenger, severely injured the driver and forced a roughly four-hour full closure as traffic police worked with a technical expert to reconstruct the cause.
• A lorry trailer carrying about 21 tonnes of worktops burned on the A7 near Fulda, likely due to a technical defect in the axle area, prompting a temporary full closure and ongoing cleanup with no injuries reported.
• Further incidents stretched emergency services, including a life-threatening injury in a B7 intersection crash near Breuna under expert review, multi-car damage on the A9 near Leipzig, an A2 hit-and-run search in NRW using a drone, and additional fires and rollovers on the A38, A4, B28 and in Düsseldorf.