On May 6th 1937 the German passenger airship Zeppelin Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed just before landing at Lakehurst naval air station in New Jersey. The news coverage capturing the disaster became famous for its high drama.
The crew of a Germany-bound transport ship that ran aground off the southern coast of England have now almost all been airlifted to safety, the British coastguard said Sunday.
Consideration for other road users has its downside, as a Munich driver found when she yielded to oncoming traffic – and took out five parked cars and a building site.
Traffic on the A43 in North Rhine-Westphalia was blocked after a light aircraft slammed into the side of the motorway during an emergency landing, it was reported on Thursday.
Erich Mairleitner thought Tuesday would be another ordinary day hauling a load along the A3 motorway, but found himself the hero of the hour after stepping in to stop an accident.
A German man had a lucky escape after getting himself stuck while tying himself up in his kitchen. Police are treating it as an "auto-erotic accident."
Platforms at Mannheim station were finally cleared on Sunday night following the Friday evening crash between a Hungary-bound freight train and a Eurocity passenger service, which injured 35 people.
Thirty-five people were injured, four of them seriously, when a passenger train collided with a freight train late Friday near Mannheim station in southern Germany, the operator Deutsche Bahn said.
A ten-year-old girl and her 21-year-old brother were killed overnight in a road accident on the A1 motorway in Upper Austria, caused by a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the road.
UPDATE: At least 11 people were killed and more than 69 hurt in the early hours of Saturday morning when a coach carrying Polish holidaymakers collided with another Polish minibus near the eastern city of Dresden.
A driver walked home unaided and went to bed largely unharmed after her car plunged 60 metres over a cliff in Bavaria. She was saved by the trees below.
A soldier was in a life-threatening condition on Monday after trying to take a shortcut home across a train track in Frankfurt am Main in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Police in Lower Saxony were left in awe of a three-year-old girl’s “stuntman-like” skills on Thursday after she clung onto the outside of a van for 18 kilometres, travelling at speeds of up to 80 km/h.
