After a 60-hour drive without sufficient breaks, a truck driver landed in a ditch on Autobahn 7 near Schuby (Schleswig-Flensburg district).
The 43-year-old lost control of his tractor-trailer between the Schuby and Tarp junctions on Thursday morning, as the police announced on Monday.
Nobody got hurt.
Schuby - Although the driver had the opportunity to sleep for 18 hours after the accident, he kept falling asleep during the subsequent interrogation.
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A 16-year-old in a car drove himself on a chase with the police in Kehl.
The young man without a driver's license did not respond to the request to stop and fled, the police said on Friday.
He was sometimes traveling at over 100 kilometers an hour to leave the officers behind.
The occupants of the car filmed the journey.
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Car overturns: three people injured
A car rolled over in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries.
The 25-year-old driver and the 18 and 19-year-old passengers suffered moderate injuries and were taken to a clinic, the police said on Thursday.
The young man at the wheel lost control of his car on Wednesday evening on the route from Wemding to Donauwörth for reasons that are still unknown.
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21-year-old seriously injured in accident - hit-and-run?
After an accident with a seriously injured person on Autobahn 11, the police are investigating suspicion of a runaway.
According to initial findings, a 21-year-old was driving his car between the junction of Pfingstberg and Joachimsthal (Barnim district) on Wednesday when a truck overtook him and got back into the lane.
21-year-old seriously injured in accident - hit-and-run?
The man used two driver cards to fool the control device to measure working hours, it said.
From the Monday evening of the previous week until the accident, he had only taken almost four hours and several even shorter breaks.
The police started investigations against the man for endangering road traffic and for suspicion of falsifying technical records.
Due to the rescue work, the A7 northbound from the Schuby junction was closed for a few hours on Thursday.
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