Overview

• Around 2:30 a.m. at the Marienborn rest area in Saxony-Anhalt, a trailer loaded with electronic waste began smoking and caught fire as the resting driver detached the tractor and moved it to safety.
• Heavy smoke from the Marienborn blaze prompted a brief eastbound closure toward Berlin, and police reported damage in the mid five‑figure range as the cause remains under investigation.
• At about 4 a.m. near Braunschweig’s Autobahnkreuz Nord, a truck veered off the parallel lane toward Berlin due to a reported technical defect and soon erupted into a full fire; the 34-year-old driver escaped.
• The Braunschweig fire destroyed the load of frozen fries, damaged five noise‑barrier elements and roughly 150 square meters of roadway, with police estimating total losses at about €500,000.
• The A2 and A391 feeder roads reopened by 11 a.m., but the parallel lane from Hannover is expected to stay closed until Saturday evening after an earlier traffic jam stretched more than 15 kilometers.