Overview
- A motorcycle and a car collided on the B326 near Wuppertal around 00:12 on June 26, and the 34-year-old motorcyclist died while the 27-year-old car driver and a passenger were uninjured.
- In Gardelegen a 46-year-old driver veered into oncoming traffic and struck a truck at about 14:00 on June 26, the driver died at the scene and the 69-year-old truck driver was largely uninjured.
- A crash at the Merseburger Straße/Eduard-Doerge-Weg intersection in Braunsbedra at about 15:40 on June 26 killed a 59-year-old motorcyclist and left the 55-year-old car driver treated for shock.
- The Gardelegen collision caused at least €10,000 in damage and closed the local Landstraße for roughly four hours, and the B326 near Wuppertal remains fully closed between the A1/A46 Wuppertal-Nord exit and the autobahn slip road for recovery work.
- Police in the affected regions say the causes of the Wuppertal and Gardelegen crashes are not yet clear and investigators continue to collect evidence, with authorities urging motorists to avoid the closed sections while clearance and inquiries proceed.