Overview

• On the A14 near Leisnig around 4:30 a.m., a suspected wrong-way Opel collided with a Fiat transporter during an overtake maneuver, injuring three people and severely hurting the Opel driver as officers opened a formal inquiry and briefly closed the motorway.
• On Kreisstraße 70 between Braubach and Hinterwald, a BMW veered into oncoming traffic and hit a Mercedes head-on, splitting the BMW in two and leaving its two occupants with severe, partly life‑threatening injuries as police appealed for witnesses.
• Near Monheim on the B2, a 61-year-old driver was trapped after a collision and was freed with technical gear before being airlifted to an Ingolstadt clinic, with the federal road shut for about 90 minutes and both cars totaled.
• In Bergisch Gladbach, a Ford turning left struck a Harley head-on, leaving the 38-year-old motorcyclist seriously injured and flown to hospital, with both vehicles seized and damage estimated at about €20,000.
• In Höchst im Odenwald, a 29-year-old woman died a week after being hit by her ex-partner’s car on a supermarket lot, as police and prosecutors continued investigating the case as suspected negligent homicide with the man no longer in custody.