Overview
- The 47-year-old Grevenbroich driver died in hospital after a head-on collision with a 33-year-old wrong-way driver on the A46 near Erkelenz.
- Police report suspicion of alcohol against the wrong-way driver, have drawn blood samples and secured his licence as he remains seriously injured.
- Fire crews used hydraulic tools to free both drivers, and the A46 was fully closed for hours as an accident team documented evidence.
- In Bavaria, a 59-year-old cyclist was fatally struck near Weilheim, with prosecutors ordering a blood test on the 71-year-old driver and a forensic reconstruction.
- Separate investigations continue into a Bochum hit-and-run with a dark-blue Opel Astra G sought, a Freigericht tractor crush with suspected alcohol, and a Pinneberg lorry tree crash.