Overview

• The crashes occurred in regions including Unterfranken, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hamburg, involving scooters, motorcycles and family vehicles.
• Victims included two scooter riders aged 55 and 35, a three-year-old boy killed in Grafschaft Bentheim and a one-year-old child who later died in a Kronberg hospital.
• A 19-year-old driver reported a microsleep-induced crash on the A63 that injured four people and prompted an overnight full closure.
• Investigators have reopened most roads and are deploying forensic experts and 3D-scanning teams to reconstruct collision scenes and determine precise causes.
• Prosecutors obtained a warrant and police detained an 18-year-old in Berlin on attempted double murder charges for the month-old Friedrichsfelde knife attack.